WAREHOUSE operative, Tomas Toleikis, has been spared a criminal conviction after an Irish court found he had illegally imported 10,000 tablets containing sildenafil into the Emerald Isle.
Prosecution solicitor, Ronan O'Neill, told a sitting of the Dublin District Court that amongst Toleikis' haul of erectile dysfunction treatments were four brands, which had not been subjected to clinical trials or approved for use in Ireland.
Mesmerised by the large quantity of the medication Toleikis had ordered, presiding Judge Anthony Halpin asked, "these were not for personal use, I take it?"
"Sorry, I had to ask," he said.
The court was told Toleikis had planned to set up an online pharmacy of sorts to sell what he thought were herbal products for between $1.60 and $8 a tablet.
While the court could have come down hard of the Dubliner, with fines of up to $68,000 for the 10 charges taken against him, Judge Halpin opted to apply a the Probation of Offenders Act, sparing Toleikis a conviction, if he paid the prosecution's costs of more than $5,500, with the case adjourned for 12 months.
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