Conditional detention for Innsbruck pharmacist couple for covid drug fraud

The man is said to have ordered Paxlovid as an assistant in a pharmacy without a prescription from the federal contingent and sold parts of it indirectly to China

Man was employed as an assistant to woman He had, at the time employed as a pharmacy assistant to his wife, a Chinese acquaintance who asked him about Paxlovid and wanted to know "whether he could get it for him," the man explained at the trial in front of judge Andrea Wegscheider and the Schöffensenat. He replied with "yes, sure," and finally "just ordered this medicine in the pharmacy system," he explained. Over time, the quantities had grown.…

2500 packs of Paxlovid ordered: Tyrolean pharmacist "had struck the blow", her husband is said to have sold drugs indirectly to China. Judgments: 18 months each conditional and unconditional fines.

Due to serious fraud in connection with the Covid drug Paxlovid, a couple of pharmacists were sentenced to conditional prison sentences at the Landesgericht Innsbruck. The sentence is not valid.

An Innsbruck pharmacist couple was sentenced to 18 months' suspended prison sentences each on Tuesday by the Regional Court for aggravated fraud and their complicity in it in connection with the COVID-19 drug Paxlovid. The husband was accused of ordering Paxlovid from the federal contingent without a prescription and thus free of charge in the winter of 2022/2023 as an assistant and of indirectly selling parts of it to China. His wife, a pharmac…

In the winter of 2023, the federal contingent of the Covid drug Paxlovid had practically dissolved into thin air. The trail also led to an Innsbruck pharmacy: On Tuesday, the couple were sentenced to imprisonment and fines. They also had to make up for the millions damage.