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Big Pharma Caught Supplying Drug Cartel With Bulk Ingredients For Meth

Shameless Big Pharma companies have been caught supplying a Mexican drug cartel with bulk ingredients to produce meth. The Big Pharma companies are accused of supplying Mexican drug kingpin Ezio Figueroa Vazquez with tons of ephedrine, worth $360 million, knowing that it would be used in the production of methamphetamine – proving yet again that Big Pharma’s only motivation is profit, not the health and wellbeing of their customers. Prosecutors are going after senior executives from the Big Pharma companies involved, charging seven executives thus far, however the names of these executives and the companies that they represent have not yet been released. However, a Reuters investigation revealed that Sterop and Andacon are two of the three Big Pharma companies being prosecuted for involvement in the illicit methamphetamine trade. Big Pharma’s Andacon: Meth for every-body The Free Though Project reports: The companies claim that they had no clue who was buying the drugs, but prosecutors say that they have evidence proving that the executives had full knowledge of what they were involved in. The evidence reportedly includes email and phone surveillance. “The company made two shipments of two million pills containing pseudoephedrine in 2006. These medicines were freely available then. My clients delivered to a reliable [...]