Three persons have been charged criminally before the Department of Justice (DOJ) with the illegal sale of coronavirus disease (COVID-19) vaccines in Quezon City.
Charged by the National Bureau of Investigation (NBI) were Harjit Kour Gonzales Singh, Calvin Maximilian Yeung Roca, and Alexis Franco De Guzman, a government employee working at the Gat Andres Bonifacio Memorial Medical Center.
NBI Officer-in-Charge Director Eric Distor said “they were presented for Inquest proceedings before the Department of Justice on July 2, 2021 for violation of Republic Act No. 9711 otherwise known as The Food and Drug Administration Act.”
The suspects were arrested by agents of the NBI’s Task Force Against Illegal Drugs (NBI-TFAID) during an entrapment operation that was conducted last June 30 along Amoranto Sr. Street in Quezon City, the NBI said in a statement.
“OIC Director Distor said that the operation stemmed from an information that a certain Harjit is selling COVID-19 vaccines, specifically, Sinovac vaccine,” the NBI said.
It said that poseur buyers arranged a meeting after the NBI-TFAID learned from an informant that “Harjit has in her possession 300 doses of Sinovac vaccines available for P840,000 and that she needs to sell it within the week.”
“NBI-TFAID then communicated with the subject to order and subsequently planned an entrapment operation,” it said.
“The NBI-TFAID operatives were able to place an order from the subject and agreed to meet along Amoranto Sr. Street in Quezon City,” it added.