Customs officers at Le Havre have intercepted an important quantity of fake Viagra, which had passed through Malta on its way to Honduras. The total estimated price of the consignment is around e6 million.

Within the consignment, 50,000 blue pills imitated the Viagra marque of Pfizer, while a further 350,000 yellow pills were fakes of Viagra’s competitor, Cialis, produced by the company Eli Lilly.

A further 11 million white pills were intended to become synthetic drugs.

The consignment had been taken aboard at Latakia in Syria and transboarded at Malta before arriving at Le Havre on its way to Honduras.

The Le Havre Customs Department said that what triggered their investigation was the fact that the consignment’s papers indicated the consignment consisted of “medicines”, as well as the port of origin

Sent to Paris to be examined, the fake pills were found to be over-dosed and dangerous, while the preparation of drugs would have been turned into two million doses of metamphetamines, known as “crystal” or “ice”. These would then have been sold on the internet or through Mexico to the whole of Latin America.