MONTREAL – People who allegedly trafficked industrial quantities of illegal erectile-dysfunction pills into Canada are facing the prospect of jail time.
Two men are accused of bringing in hundreds of thousands of contraband pills made in China and selling them across Canada.
The Canada Border Services Agency says the illegal products were intended for sale on the Internet and in sex shops in different provinces.
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Dozens of charges are being laid against Alain Elmaleh and Alain Richer and against 12 businesses Elmaleh owns in five provinces: British Columbia,
Ontario, Quebec, New Brunswick and Nova Scotia.
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The border-services agency announced today it is laying 37 charges against the two Montreal men under the Customs Act, the Food and Drugs Act and the Criminal Code.
The most serious of the charges against the men, selling contraband, carries a maximum $500,000 penalty and up to five years in prison.
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