State closed 12 websites selling illegal drugs

THE State’s drug policing body is now spending around a third of its time investigating the sale of medicines over the internet, it was learned yesterday.

In the last five years the Irish Medicines Board (IMB) has been involved in the closure of 12 websites illegally selling medicines over the internet. Three were based in Ireland.

The IMB believes that seven counterfeit medicines could be available on the Irish market.