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> Health - Reuters > >Calif. Man Indicted for Trafficking in Fake Viagra >Fri Jan 9, 7:11 PM ET Add Health - Reuters to My >Yahoo! > > > >LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - A federal grand jury on Friday >indicted a Los Angeles man on charges of trafficking >in counterfeit tablets of the anti-impotence drug >Viagra that he purportedly obtained from a drug >company in China, a U.S. Attorney's Office spokesman >said. > >In Yahoo! Health > > Chronic Heartburn >Need Relief? > >------------------------------------------------------- >------------------------- > >More from Yahoo! Health: >• Check Your Symptoms >• How Is It Diagnosed? >• Available Treatments > > > > >The three-count indictment names Chris Do, also known >as Khoa Twan Do, and accuses the Glendale, California, >man of conspiring with a Beijing drug maker to import >at least 40,000 bogus Viagra tablets. > > >Do, 31, had the tablets shipped to his business, >Health Plus in Glendale, but two packages were >intercepted by U.S. customs officials in Alaska, >Assistant U.S. Attorney John Owens said. > > >Agents seized about 10,000 blue pills stamped with the >same markings as Viagra tablets, including the name of >Pfizer Inc., the world's largest pharmaceutical >company and the maker of Viagra. > > >Viagra is one of Pfizer's top-selling drugs, with a >U.S. market share of 85 percent of new prescriptions >for anti-impotence drugs as of mid-October, the >company reported in its quarterly earnings report. > > >Prosecutors said Do planned to take advantage of >demand for the world's most recognized brand of >anti-impotence drug, which Pfizer reports has been >prescribed to more than 20 million men worldwide since >its launch in 1998. > > >A search of Do's computer revealed that he had >arranged for at least 40,000 fake Viagra pills to be >shipped to him, and that he had instructed the >manufacturer to make them "look like the real thing," >the indictment said. > > >The tablets contained some measure of the active >ingredient in Viagra, but the pills had not passed >muster with the U.S. Food and Drug Administration >(news - web sites), Owens said. > > >A representative of Pfizer could not be immediately >reached for comment. > > >The charges of conspiracy, trafficking in counterfeit >goods and selling a counterfeit drug carry a potential >maximum penalty of up to 18 years in federal prison >and a $2 million fine. > > >Do is scheduled to be arraigned in U.S. District Court >in Los Angeles on Jan. 26.

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