Hungarian man convicted for selling fraudulent anti-virus treatment

The District-Court of Csongrád County convicted a local man in the first instance for preparing and selling a drug said to be an antiviral remedy. The “medicine man” earned money by scamming clients with false and dangerous anti-virus concoction.

According to Index, the court found the 53 year-old-man guilty of a drug counterfeiting crime and sentenced him to two years in prison, later suspended for three years. The court ordered as well the confiscation of 1.172 million HUF against him.

The high school graduate man, without any criminal record, founded a company in Romania for the production and distribution of medications in August 2017. According to the indictment, on behalf of the company, he established a Hungarian webshop in December 2017, designating himself as the contact person.

The site advertised a solution containing sodium chloride, hydrochloric acid and citric acid, claimed to “kill malaria out of the body in 48 hours”, remove influenza, bacteria and viruses permanently and be suitable for preventing and treating various infections and diseases.

The scammer promoted his products on different social media interfaces as well as in numerous videos in which he explained the effects and the usage of the magic concoction.