Ukrainian Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko has said that criminal cases should be opened against the owners of drugstores that are profiteering from medicines.
"A six-month reserve of medicines at all stores and drugstores was sold in 20 days, so there’s currently a shortage of medicines. Moreover, the owners of drugstore networks, as well as certain producers of medicines have started to [profiteer]… I asked the Prosecutor General’s Office to conduct checks on drugstores and drugstore storages and open criminal cases against those owners of drugstores and managers who are currently making money out of people’s troubles," she said from the parliament’s rostrum on Tuesday, while reporting on the current situation with the spread of the flu epidemic in Ukraine.
She said that the Interior Ministry, the State Tax Administration, the State Inspectorate for Control over Prices and the State Inspectorate for Control over the Quality of Medicines would be involved in this work.
