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On 19 August this year, the customs service seized by mail what was to be the largest pill in Norwegian history. The seizure that has been performed is Alazopram, the active ingredient in Ksalol.
– We carry out seizures of smaller quantities of this type all the time, but in August this year we made the largest seizure in Norwegian history of tablets with narcotic content in the mail, Customs section chief Lars Teigen tells TV 2.
See the seizure of records below in the case.
SECTION HOLDER: Lars Teigen at Customs Photo: Simen Askjer / TV 2
– They are the same tablets, the same drug that has claimed human lives in Tromsø, says Teigen.
Go to northern Norway
The tablets were going to a large city in northern Norway. The police have launched an investigation and so far have a suspect in the case.
This week it emerged that three people in Tromsø have recently lost their lives after taking fake Ksalol-labeled tablets. That is to say, the same brand that the Customs Service now finds daily in ordinary mail.
RECORD FITTING: Here are 20,0000 vacuum-packed tablets. Photo: Toll Movie / November
Advice to the journalists of TV 2 here
– Turns out there is a market here for this. There is demand despite all the warnings that it is life threatening, Teigen says.
A global problem
TV 2 has spoken in various reports about the criminal industry behind fake drugs.
Last year we bought drugs in Istanbul, which we took to drug manufacturer Pfizer in England and analyzed them.
According to Pfizer, counterfeit drugs is a massive global problem, and there are almost no limits to the ingredients that counterfeit drug manufacturers use for profit.
Awaiting analysis
The fake tablets that have claimed three lives in Tromsø are now spreading across the country. Several police districts have asked Kripos for help in analyzing the seized pills.
CONFIRM ATTENDANCE: Senior Engineer Elisabeth Drange at Kripos. Photo: Simen Askjer / TV 2
– Kripos is aware of the concern associated with Ksalol tablets in circulation. We have now received seizures from Harstad for analysis and are awaiting seizures from Tromsø. These analyzes have a high priority, but will take some time. When analytical answers are available, this will be given to the police district, Kripos senior engineer Elisabeth Drange tells TV 2.
The answer to the tests will probably not be ready until next week.
The section chief of the Customs Service affirms that this seems to be a problem that does not disappear, but on the contrary increases.
ARRESTED: These tablets were on their way to a person in Trøndelag. Photo: Simen Askjer / TV 2
– I think that now people have to stop buying drugs on the Internet from an unknown manufacturer. Now this has been reported so many times that it needs to be taken seriously, and it’s a shame people still buy and order these drugs.
What then is your fear when you look at everything that is entering?
– The fear is that we will have more deaths, Teigen tells TV 2.
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