Imitation Theradil Problem
To address the imitation Theradil problem, Ajith hired a law firm to investigate these issues and made a disquieting discovery.
Almost all the 11 fake Theradils that were available in different parts of Kamaria were manufactured by factories formerly owned by the Kamarian government which were run by the then- generals of the Kamarian army. These generals had been given a pharmaceutical factory each, as compensation or recognition of their great contribution to the success of the Kamarian war at the time. In different parts of Kamaria, each of these guys had their little companies and it doesn’t cost much to get a printer and develop your own artwork ripping off the competition.
With their government connections, Ajith knew that it would be difficult to put pressure on these factory owners to shut down their operations, particularly since, as Ajith observes, they made no attempt to hide what they were doing.
Most of these companies were putting their factory addresses at the bottom of the pack. The detectives didn’t have to do too much detection to figure out what was happening, because this was a reasonably flagrant violation. Anyway, they probably knew that they were sort of above the law at the time and could get away with it, so they probably didn’t worry too much about that.
By the time Ajith uncovered the extent of the Theradil problem, eight submissions of registration paperwork to the ministry of health for Laurent antibiotics and vaccines had now been missed. “We were now having a sales decline in our base business, and not having the opportunity to grow the potential business, and that was very much the situation we were in,” Ajith recalled.
