A pharmacist was arrested in Thessaloniki following complaints that he has for sale pharmaceutical preparations that did not have coupons (authenticity tape) and among them medicines that fall under the category of narcotics. She is a 50-year-old woman, who was arrested following an investigation by the Sub-Directorate of the Economic Police of Northern Greece, with the assistance of the National Transparency Authority.

As it became known, in an on-site investigation at her pharmacy, 69 packages with 1820 tablets of narcotic drugs were found and confiscated, which she possessed without the authenticity tape. During the same investigation, other pharmaceutical preparations were identified that did not carry the prescribed coupons and further investigation is being conducted for this case.

According to the case file, the above drugs were prescribed in an earlier period and the prescriptions were executed without having been delivered to customers.

Criminal charges were brought against her for drug trafficking in the form of possession and she was referred to apologize to an investigator.

She, during preliminary investigation, denied the charge, while according to information she claimed that these were drugs that were prescribed electronically and for the financial convenience of her clients, she kept them in the pharmacy to make them available gradually, when they would be able to pay for them.