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You do n’t need to repair to the dark vane to receive your illicit contraceptive pill counterfeiting presses and mould . Just go to eBay and you could get one like new for a large cost ! Or at least youcoulduntil recently , when the Justice Department action the ship’s company for help the sale of thousands of equipment intelligibly mean for illegal purposes — and now eBay owes $ 59 million .
oral contraceptive press are the matter you utilise if you ’re a drug manufacturer — or a counterfeiter — to change state raw materials into tablet form . While there are no dubiousness some perfectly mundane home uses for the smaller varieties of these things , it ’s hard to suppose anyone needing to make thousands of pills per hour unless they ’re a drug blue runner .
Not only were pill presses being sold on eBay , but the same vendee were also pick up imitative moulding , stamps , and dyes , which let them get simulated pills of specific medicinal drug . The DOJ news program waiver notes that many of these buyers were subsequently prosecuted ; I ’ve asked for more selective information on that , since it sounds like eBay may have unwittingly acted as a huge honey pot .
Anyone can tell you the opioid epidemic in the U.S. is real , and well-off admittance to anovulatory drug - counterfeiting hardware can only make it worse . score a bag of Oxy off the street after let addict to the actual affair , and getting something laced with fentanyl instead — that ’s the kind of mistake that can , and does , be lifetime with agitate geometrical regularity .
eBay contended in a statementthat it had take “ actions ” to remove these machine “ prior to any request from the DOJ or other authorization , and years before the politics turned its tending to these products . ” It ’s hard to square this with the settlement , which state that the relevant metre period was belated 2015 to the present , during which time eBay did not right tape or report sales of the machine , despite sell thousands of commercial - level press to residential addresses — and trade counterfeit stamps and such to the same buyers . I ’ve need eBay for illumination on this .
Whatever eBay ’s “ action ” were , they amounted to less than the authority would prefer , and to avoid any admission fee of wrongdoing ( as is custom ) they have agreed to pay $ 59 million and “ enhance its submission program with regard to its prohibited and curb detail policy . ”
In caseful you hear a doorbell ringing somewhere in your mind , this is a different case from that brought in September over thesale of illegal and severe pollutants .
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DOJ articulate eBay sell chiliad of illegal , poisonous and pollute products
