No one at BPOM has been accused of wrongdoing. Read more at straitstimes.com.
JAKARTA - Indonesia’s police are conducting preliminary inquiries into whether any actions by officials at the country’s drug regulator could amount to criminal wrongdoing, as they expand a probe intoacross the nation, two top inspectors told Reuters.
Mr Andika Urrasyidin, lead police investigator of the case, told Reuters police have called in “many” BPOM officials for questioning, and the investigation is still underway. “We asked them according to their functions, as regulators, whether they’ve conducted supervision and what kind of supervision,” he told Reuters. “They were only interrogated as witnesses, we’re coordinating with the prosecutors.”
In January, Mr Pipit Rismanto, a senior police official, told reporters the authorities had found one company sold “industrial-grade” toxins as pharmaceutical-grade propylene glycol, a key base of syrupy medicines.The toxins, ethylene glycol and diethyelene glycol , can be used by unscrupulous actors as a substitute for propylene glycol because they can cost less than half the price, several pharmaceutical experts told Reuters.
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