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"With a 50% profit, capital will take risks."
"For the sake of 100% profit, capital dares to trample on all human laws."
So, what if it's a 10,000 percent profit?
Little fairies, do you have such troubles every time you take a photo: you obviously want to show your most beautiful self, but you always unconsciously hide behind your plastic girlfriends, only dare to show half of your face, and silently pray in your heart: "I hope this can make my face smaller?" "But the truth is, not only does this pose not really change the shape of the face, but it can make people look less confident.
But now, there is a magical weapon that can make you quickly turn into a V-face goddess, and you don't have to bother to take pictures to slim your face again, that is, - face slimming needle!
The name Botox may sound unfamiliar, but the word "face slimming injection" is a household name, and almost all beauty-loving women have heard of it. Open any social media platform and you can see bloggers recommending this project. In the online publicity, the recovery period of the face slimming injection is fast, the safety is high, and the obvious face slimming effect can be seen in less than a month. However, many fairies are not sure whether the face slimming injections they inject are original and genuine, and they don't even know that your beauty is facing sniping from underground criminals.
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Lanzhou cracked the "underground supply network" of 10 million botulinum toxin
Recently, under the guidance of the Gansu Provincial Public Security Department, the Lanzhou Municipal Public Security Bureau successfully cracked the first major case of obstruction of drug management in Gansu after 10 months of arduous investigation. The police arrested a total of 50 suspects, smashed 6 family-style medical aesthetic "black clinics", and seized more than 31,000 pieces of botulinum toxin type A for injection and other three types of medical devices, with a value of more than 1,000 yuan.
Source: Red Star News
This botulinum toxin type A cannot be used casually, it is a toxic drug strictly controlled by the state, and individuals and undesignated drug dealers are not allowed to buy and sell. But behind this "beauty trap", for the sake of profit, the suspect actually colluded with domestic and foreign salespeople to buy botulinum toxin bacillus at a low price, and then hoarded it and sold it to all parts of the country through the Internet at a higher price.
Wang Hongbin, deputy captain of the food and drug investigation brigade of the public security detachment of the Lanzhou Municipal Public Security Bureau, said that the outer packaging of the drugs sold by Zhao did not have Chinese labels, nor did he obtain drug-related approval documents, and did not take professional storage and transportation measures for the drugs involved in the case during the purchase and sale process. These botulinum toxin products have been identified by specialized institutions as having serious hazards to human health.
Through combing and sorting out the source of Zhao's drugs, the task force learned that his online supplier was Qian Moumou, an unemployed person in Chengguan District, Lanzhou City. On June 28, 2023, the task force arrested Qian Moumou in a residential building at the railway station in Chengguan District, Lanzhou City, and seized 5 bottles of botulinum toxin of a foreign brand in his refrigerator. Then, the police arrested 4 people, including Yang and Zhu, and smashed 2 family-style medical beauty clinics.
These suspects are very cunning, they have a clear hierarchy and their dealings are hidden. But they couldn't escape the people's police's sky net, and the police uncle went to many places to collect the net, and finally knocked out the sixth level of domestic online sales, arrested 20 criminal suspects, and seized more than 13,000 pieces of botulinum toxin and three types of medical devices involved in the case, and the amount involved was more than 1,000 yuan.
In this case, the suspect also set up a husband and wife file, Gong and Liu acted as first-level agents, they colluded with overseas sources through communication software, rented a warehouse in a community in Chengguan District, Lanzhou City for a long time, hoarded toxic drugs involved in the case and three types of medical aesthetic medical devices from informal channels, and sold them on consignment nationwide, and the purchase and sale of the drugs involved in the case were frequent and large, with an average monthly consignment of more than 1,000 express deliveries, and an average monthly sales of more than 30 yuan. This is a major earthquake in the medical beauty industry, so that those fairies who pursue beauty can keep their eyes open and don't fall into the trap of "black medical beauty".
In drug-related cases, finding the warehouse is the key, and hitting the spot is the key. Xie Pengdong, captain of the Food and Drug Investigation Brigade of the Public Security Detachment of the Lanzhou Municipal Public Security Bureau, introduced, "Gong and Liu have a strong sense of anti-reconnaissance, and the drugs involved in the consignment in the same city are all received by the courier at a designated place one kilometer away from the warehouse, and the location is frequently changed." To avoid revealing warehouse locations, they never use door-to-door service when mailing couriers. After a month of squatting, combined with data analysis, we finally determined the storage warehouse for the drugs involved in the case. ”
Source: Red Star News
The task force found from the massive data that a total of 30 people in Lanzhou City purchased botulinum toxin involved in the case through Gong and Liu. The 30 personnel are all employees in the beauty and nail and medical beauty industries, and they make profits by purchasing and selling botulinum toxin type A for injection from unknown sources at low prices.
On March 19, 2024, the task force launched a cluster campaign in conjunction with the Fourth Sub-Bureau of the Urban District and the Public Security Bureau of Lanzhou New District. At 7 o'clock in the morning, the public security organs of Lanzhou City gathered at the same time, none of the 30 suspects escaped the net, destroyed 1 warehouse involved in the case, and seized more than 10,000 pieces of botulinum toxin type A for injection and other three types of medical devices.
So far, a chain from upstream production to downstream end sales of counterfeit drugs has been successfully cut off. Liang Bo, deputy head of the public security detachment of the Lanzhou City Public Security Bureau, said that the successful investigation of the case has cut off the whole chain of smuggling and selling the drugs involved in the case from abroad to the mainland, purified the market environment in the field of medical cosmetology in Lanzhou, deterred the crime of selling fake, inferior and smuggled drugs, and effectively maintained the normal drug management order in Lanzhou.
Illegal medical beauty injections dare to enter the Beauty Expo!
In fact, the Lanzhou case is not an isolated case, and similar cases have been cracked across the country. In the case of Guangzhou, for example, at a beauty salon in early 2022, the police received a report that a manufacturer was suspected of producing counterfeit botulinum toxin. This clue aroused great concern from the police, and they immediately set up a special task force to launch an in-depth investigation of this exhibitor. The investigation found that Wu Mouyue, the leader of this criminal gang, was extremely cunning, and they were very careful in the process of making and selling counterfeits, and every link was very hidden.
Source: CCTV Financial Channel Punctual Finance
In order to avoid being caught by surprise, the task force did not immediately arrest the criminal gang, but conducted a more in-depth investigation of this criminal gang. Through careful analysis, they found that the gang frequently traveled to Foshan, speculating that it might be a den where they stored their products. Sure enough, the task force made a breakthrough in the investigation in Foshan, and they found clues to another criminal gang.
Under the leadership of Wang Yifeng, a police officer from the Food, Drug and Environmental Crime Investigation Detachment of the Guangzhou Municipal Public Security Bureau, the task force classified the relevant production and sales personnel in the Guangzhou market, and found that these gangs were not only involved in production and sales, but also colluded with each other when the quantity of goods was in short supply. This finding shows that the relationship between these criminal gangs is intricate, and there are cases of cross-provincial, municipal, and multi-regional crimes.
Source: CCTV Financial Channel Punctual Finance
In order to wipe out this criminal gang, the special case group made a detailed plan for the arrest of each criminal suspect on the basis of collecting and fixing evidence. Under the coordination and command of the Ministry of Public Security, the Guangdong police and the Jiangsu police jointly carried out a network collection operation. During the operation, the police smashed a total of 15 dens involved in the case, arrested 71 criminal suspects, and seized more than 5,000 boxes of counterfeit botulinum toxin, hyaluronic acid and other medical aesthetic drugs and medical device products, and more than 60,000 boxes of semi-finished products, and the amount involved was as high as more than 4,500 yuan.
Tianjin Counterfeit Drug Case: The Exposure of the Cross-Provincial Black Industry Chain
Back in 2021, similar cases were found in Tianjin. Among the cases examined and prosecuted by the Hongqiao District Procuratorate of Tianjin Municipality, there is a case involving the illegal production and sale of counterfeit drugs, and the suspects have formed a huge criminal network. This network is composed of 11 people including Liang, who are suspected of illegally producing and selling counterfeit "Botox" botulinum toxin, which cost less than 10 yuan, but are sold at high profits in the market, forming a cross-provincial black industry chain.
Source: Supreme People's Procuratorate
Liang was originally a technician for a pharmaceutical company, but after resigning, he switched to cosmetics. With a keen sense of the market, he discovered the huge profit margins of "Botox" botulinum toxin. By cooperating with Du, who worked at a biopharmaceutical company in Hubei, they developed a low-cost counterfeit botulinum toxin product and began mass production. In order to expand the scale of production, they invested more than 100 yuan to set up a company, and recruited several technicians to join the shares, promising to give high returns.
Through an elaborate distribution network, this gang sells its products to beauty salons and plastic surgery studios across the country. They use the mode of packaging and separation, and send the lyophilized powder, instructions, labels, inner pallets, and packaging boxes to the warehouse separately, and they are packaged by "their own people" to improve the credibility of the products. The price of these counterfeit products in beauty salons is generally more than 1,000 yuan, and the profit has increased more than 100 times.
It wasn't until a consumer felt unwell after using it, suspected a counterfeit drug, and called the police that the case surfaced. After investigation by the public security organs, 11 suspects were arrested and a large number of counterfeit botulinum toxin products were seized. After many discussions and sampling and inspection, these counterfeit products were finally identified as counterfeit drugs, and the case was transferred for review and prosecution on suspicion of the crime of producing and selling counterfeit drugs.
The cost of a bottle of counterfeit botulinum toxin does not exceed 10 yuan, and when it reaches the hands of consumers, the price is as high as 1,000 yuan. The difference in price is the source of the huge profits of these criminals. Zheng Huidong, the police officer handling the case, revealed that the price sold by the sales team was 100-200 yuan, while the price sold by beauty institutions to consumers was generally about 1,000 yuan. The profit margins in this have reached an astonishing hundreds of times.
Ingredients and risks of counterfeit and smuggled botulinum toxin
According to public information, botulinum toxin is a biological neurotoxin secreted by Clostridium botulinum, which is a neuromuscular blocker, known as the "king of toxins", and its toxicity is even much higher than that of arsenic. In case of overdose, repeated injection, injection misplacement and counterfeit products, iatrogenic botulinum toxin poisoning is very likely to occur.
The biggest risk of counterfeit botulinum toxin like the Tianjin case is that the ingredients are unknown, and the so-called botulinum toxin in the Tianjin case is actually a mixture of lyophilized powder and solvent. If the freeze-dried powder does not contain active ingredients, it is equivalent to spending money in vain, and it has no effect at all; If microbial contamination is present, there may be a risk of infection after injection.
However, the smuggled botulinum toxin has not been inspected and quarantined, it is difficult to trace it from the source, and it is extremely unreliable, not to mention that the transportation environment is not guaranteed, and there is basically no cold chain in the whole process, resulting in the drug has already deteriorated, and it may "can't close your eyes", "drool" and other problems and some unpredictable risks.
Be wary of illegal face slimming injections to protect beauty and health
As these cases continue to be solved, it is also a string for consumers. In their quest for beauty, fairies must be vigilant to avoid falling victim to illegal aesthetic products.
If you need to inject face slimming injections, then you must check the outer packaging of the drug to confirm its manufacturer, production date, expiration date and other information.
Before injection, it is necessary to make full use of the anti-counterfeiting mark on the drug, and verify the authenticity of the product through formal channels. In order to avoid injection into counterfeit or unknown products.
Try to choose a formal medical aesthetic institution and choose a qualified doctor to provide services for you.
After surgery, it is also necessary to avoid behaviors that are likely to cause adverse reactions, such as drinking, spicy and irritating.
Deepin Beauty reminds you that beauty is not an adventure, but a well-planned journey. It takes wisdom and caution to find the true beauty, not the dangers that hide behind over-marketing.