NEW DELHI : The Enforcement Directorate (ED) on Tuesday said that assets worth ₹1.04 crore of two Gujarat-based businessmen, who allegedly sold "fake" Remdesivir injections during the second wave of the Covid pandemic last year, have been attached under the anti-money laundering law.
ED further said that Kaushal Mahendra Bhai Vora and Punit Gunvantlal Shah manufactured fake injections of the anti-viral drug at a farmhouse-cum-manufacturing facility in Surat and sold them in Madhya Pradesh and some other states.
The anti-viral drug was part of the clinical management of coronavirus patients. "The accused sold fake Remdesivir injections to various vendors who further sold the same to needy retail customers at exorbitant prices.
In some cases, the injections were directly sold to retail customers who were identified by the accused persons through social media platforms during the peak of the second wave of Covid-19," the ED said in a statement.