Seven face grilling over suspect weight-loss pills

By Kornkamon Aksorndech
The Nation

 

 

Police have summoned for questioning seven people associated with a factory in Kalasin producing weight-loss pills, including a former pharmacist who lost her licence and received a two-year suspended jail sentence over a previous medication offence.

 

National police deputy chief General Weerachai Songmetta said on Sunday no charges had yet been filed.

 

He said investigators were awaiting the results of an autopsy on the body of a 30-year-old Ang Thong woman who died last week after taking weight-loss pills she bought via the Facebook page of a “clinic”.

 

In the meantime, they had determined that the online clinic, whose pills came from the factory in Kalasin’s Na Mon district, had sold them to 5,619 people.

 

Weerachai urged the purchasers to file fraud complaints with police against the seven suspects. He said damages in the case could amount to Bt30 million.

 

Summoned for questioning are: 

 

•    Anyamanee Heepkaew, who allegedly handled bank deposits worth Bt34 million in the past year;

•    A 52-year-old factory owner identified only by her nickname Toy; 

•    A former pharmacist nicknamed Dear who operated the online clinic; 

•    Two business associates; 

•    Two delivery people.

 

Weerachai said the factory, located adjacent to the owner’s home, was raided on Saturday and was found to be holding nearly 10 million pills along with production equipment.

 

Traces of a medicine suspected to be sibutramine were also found, possibly the remains of a larger quantity being burned to hide it from the police, he said.

 

Weerachai said the factory was linked to the Magic Skin brand whose owners were accused of selling unlicensed and substandard food supplements. The factory owner allegedly used to manufacture weight-loss pills in Samut Sakhon for a subsidiary of Magic Skin, he said.

 

Evidence was being gathered to support preliminary charges of establishing and operating a factory without a permit, selling a Category II Controlled Psychotropic Substance without a permit, producing fake medicine or food supplements, and destroying evidence.

 

Weerachai said he had instructed Kalasin police to look into the factory owner’s accusation that a senior state official had accepted bribes from her. 

 

He said he would meet several of the suspects on July 10 to hear their testimony about the alleged bribery.

 

Source: http://www.nationthailand.com/news/30372502

 

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Greetings, 

 

When will Thais learn that to lose weight, you must eat healthy meals and exercise regularly!  There are no miracle pills that will get rid of body fat!

"Seven face grilling over suspect weight-loss pills"

 

Shouldn't be grilled if they are really keen to lose weight.

Poached, possibly, or even lightly fried but not grilled  . . . .  ????

The 'pharmacist' is my wife's niece, who previously made a living as a loan shark who seized land when her 'clients' couldn't keep up with her exorbitant charges.

 

Here's something interesting. She's fat, so obviously afraid to take her own pills.

...sounds like they are shifting into....'long drawn out mode'.....

6 hours ago, webfact said:

Weerachai said he had instructed Kalasin police to look into the factory owner’s accusation that a senior state official had accepted bribes from her. 

Ha ha ha ha .... 

3 hours ago, bkkbudddy said:

Greetings, 

 

When will Thais learn that to lose weight, you must eat healthy meals and exercise regularly!  There are no miracle pills that will get rid of body fat!

Surely you know that there are millions of people in the west who fall for these weight loss scams.  In the USA, it's the number one health care scam and it's because people want to believe there's an easier way to lose weight than just diet and exercise.   

 

[Diet scams rank No. 1 among health care frauds reported to the Federal Trade Commission (FTC), with on-the-make marketers deploying a variety of tricks to get people to purchase their wares.]

 

https://www.aarp.org/money/scams-fraud/info-2019/weight-loss.html

Shame they don't work, there's a rather 'large' call for them in the bars these days

2 hours ago, Berkshire said:

Surely you know that there are millions of people in the west who fall for these weight loss scams.  In the USA, it's the number one health care scam and it's because people want to believe there's an easier way to lose weight than just diet and exercise.   

 

[Diet scams rank No. 1 among health care frauds reported to the Federal Trade Commission (FTC), with on-the-make marketers deploying a variety of tricks to get people to purchase their wares.]

 

https://www.aarp.org/money/scams-fraud/info-2019/weight-loss.html

"In my 20 years as a medical practitioner, I have found that exercise and calorie restriction to be profoundly INEFFECTIVE for most, if not all, of my female patients." So if diet and exercise don't work, what does? Answer: something a lot easier. And it's free.

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A6Dkt7zyImk

 

Apologies, here is the correct link:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A6Dkt7zyImk 

9 hours ago, bkkbudddy said:

Greetings, 

 

When will Thais learn that to lose weight, you must eat healthy meals and exercise regularly!  There are no miracle pills that will get rid of body fat!

Sibutramine is effective at losing bodyfat, unfortunately its dangerous too. There are miracle pils that help you get rid of body fat. Unfortunately the ones that work like sibutramine, clenbuterol, DNP, t3  are dangerous. 

 

It would be better if you say there are no effective and really safe pils. 

 

Nicotine gum works too for weight loss especially when combined with cafeine.