A 70-year-old supermarket owner, Hassim Hassim, selling schedule six medicine without proper licence, appeared at the Polokwane magistrate’s court on Friday.
Hassim faces a charge of contravening the Medicines and Related Substances Act.
Police spokesperson Lieutenant-Colonel Philani Nkwalase said the Hawks’ serious commercial crimes investigation team, together with the inspectors from the South African Health Products Regulatory Authority, had received a tip-off and arrested Hassim on Wednesday.
“The said medication is supposed to be sold by a pharmacist upon presentation of prescription from a qualified doctor. The authorities seized medication that include ointments, creams and capsules worth a combined value surpassing R100 000.
The matter was remanded to the July 29.
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