Prosecutors seek 12 years for doctor who sold sleeping pills to drug dealer
Posted on 2026-08-28 08:06:13
The Taoyuan District Prosecutors' Office has indicted a doctor accused of illegally supplying sleeping pills to a drug dealer.
According to the prosecutors' office, the case involving the 65-year-old doctor came to light during an investigation by the Taipei City Police Department investigation into a drug dealer.
Police traced sleeping pills sold by the drug dealer to a clinic in Taoyuan's Guanyin District.
Prosecutors say an investigation found that the doctor had supplied the drug dealer will sleeping pills by falsifying records and adding the drugs to prescriptions issued to patients without their knowledge.
Officials seized over 21,000 sleeping pills, prescription forms and 16-million N-T in cash when they raided the doctor's clinic in April.
The doctor has been charged violations of the Narcotics Hazard Prevention Act and the Criminal Code.
He was released on bail of 400,000 N-T.
Prosecutors are seeking a sentence of 12 years in prison and fines totaling 13-million N-T.
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