Is private selling of authentic meds worse than making fake vaccines?

ZHAI YIPING, a liver cancer patient, was put under criminal detention in Shanghai on July 25 on the charge of "selling fake medicines". Beijing News comments:

Zhai quit his job as a project manager last year, when he started dedicating all his energy to buying effective anti-cancer medicines in Germany and selling them via social media to cancer patients in China with a 5 percent mark up.

Since he was detained, nearly 200 cancer patients from across the country, who had taken his drugs and found the medicines are effective in treating their cancer, have written to the judicial authorities, appealing for them to show mercy on their "savior".