Suspect in counterfeit drugs ring at large

The Ministry of Public Security put up a notice on its website yesterday offering 10,000 yuan ($1,460) for information on a man suspected of leading a drug ring pushing fake diabetes medication that has caused the deaths of at least two people.

Li Dong, the main suspect at large, was born in 1970 and allegedly sold the fake Tangzhiping capsules in several Chinese regions, police said.

Police arrested five suspects in mid January following the deaths of the diabetes patients in the Xinjiang Uygur autonomous region after they took the bogus drugs, the ministry said.