Prague court sentences pharmacist charged with excessive sale of medicines containing pseudo-ephedrine to eight years in prison

On Wednesday, a district court in Prague sentenced a pharmacist to eight years in a high-security prison, in addition to a fine of three million crowns. The man, who is 50, was charged with selling over-the-counter medicines containing pseudo-ephedrine to customers who he knew were using the medicines as an ingredient in the illegal production of meta-amphetamine. The court estimates that the pharmacist sold roughly six million pills of the medicine to meta-amphetamine producers. The pharmacist denies having sold the pseudo-ephedrine containing drug Nurofen at all. At a court hearing in November, he claimed to not know that the medicine could be used in the production of illegal drugs.