The following is excerpted from a 4 October 2012 press release by the World Customs Organization.
A global operation spanning 100 countries aimed at disrupting organized crime networks behind the illicit online sale of medicines has resulted in some 80 arrests and the worldwide seizure of 3.75 million units of potentially life-threatening medicines worth 10.5 million US dollars, thereby highlighting the scale of the traffic and the danger it represents.
This release is available in its entirety at:
http://www.wcoomd.org/press/?v=1&lid=1&cid=14&id=319