{"id":231388,"date":"2025-02-17T07:18:02","date_gmt":"2025-02-17T11:18:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/?p=231388"},"modified":"2025-02-17T08:32:09","modified_gmt":"2025-02-17T12:32:09","slug":"the-lucrative-viagra-smuggling-trade-to-europe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/2025\/02\/17\/the-lucrative-viagra-smuggling-trade-to-europe\/","title":{"rendered":"The lucrative viagra-smuggling trade to Europe"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-large is-resized\"><img src=\"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/Contrabando-Viagra-Espan\u0303a-Listin-Diario-1024x575.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-231435\" width=\"600\" srcset=\"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/Contrabando-Viagra-Espan\u0303a-Listin-Diario-1024x575.png 1024w, https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/Contrabando-Viagra-Espan\u0303a-Listin-Diario-300x168.png 300w, https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/Contrabando-Viagra-Espan\u0303a-Listin-Diario-768x431.png 768w, https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/Contrabando-Viagra-Espan\u0303a-Listin-Diario-1536x862.png 1536w, https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/Contrabando-Viagra-Espan\u0303a-Listin-Diario.png 1586w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 706px) 89vw, (max-width: 767px) 82vw, 740px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>The media is reporting on the lucrative business of smuggling \u201cViagra\u201d type drugs from the Dominican Republic to Europe. On 11 February 2025, a Dominican 22-year old was arrested in the Barcelona International Airport after arriving with 20,000 Viagra-type pills. The airport authorities uncovered the stash in his luggage after signaling him out for being an overly anxious traveler.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Noticias SIN reports that on 20 January 2025, a 63-year old woman had been arrested for another shipment of 20,000 Viagra pills at the Elche Airport in Alicante, Spain.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>As reported, the pills go for around EUR12 in Europe, while in the Dominican Republic, 92 pills can be purchased for around US$60. Pharmacies do not require prescriptions to sell Viagra-type meds. The difference in prices has spurred lucrative black market operations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Noticias SIN publishes a list of other recent arrests of viagra-type pill traffickers. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Read more in Spanish:<br><a href=\"https:\/\/listindiario.com\/la-republica\/20250214\/dominicanos-salen-gran-cantidad-viagra-aeropuerto-pais-espana_845658.html\">Listin Diario <\/a><br><a href=\"https:\/\/noticiassin.com\/el-lucrativo-negocio-de-contrabandear-viagra-desde-rd-a-europa-1791741\/\">Noticias SIN <\/a><br><a href=\"https:\/\/elpais.com\/espana\/catalunya\/2025-02-14\/detenido-en-el-aeropuerto-de-barcelona-con-mas-de-20000-pastillas-de-viagra-en-su-maleta.html\">El Pais <\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>17 February 2025<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The media is reporting on the lucrative business of smuggling \u201cViagra\u201d type drugs from the Dominican Republic to Europe. On 11 February 2025, a Dominican 22-year old was arrested in the Barcelona International Airport after arriving with 20,000 Viagra-type pills. The airport authorities uncovered the stash in his luggage after signaling him out for being &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/2025\/02\/17\/the-lucrative-viagra-smuggling-trade-to-europe\/\" class=\"more-link\">Read more\u2026<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[337,3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/231388"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=231388"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/231388\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":231471,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/231388\/revisions\/231471"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=231388"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=231388"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=231388"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}