In a statement on Sunday, the ministry disclosed that a single Bahá'í family located in Tehran was found to be operating 20 pharmacies, three cosmetic and hygiene supply companies, along with multiple unauthorized warehouses engaged in a wide range of criminal activities.
These activities included medicine trafficking, the production of counterfeit travel medicines, money laundering schemes, tax evasion, and various other illicit undertakings, the statement added.
The network, in collaboration with a select group of corrupt physicians, was also implicated in the over-prescription of medications to patients, coupled with manipulating patients to exclusively procure their prescriptions from their pharmacies, it continued.
Furthermore, the Intelligence Ministry said the family ran 20 concealed warehouses to harbor stockpiles of smuggled and hoarded drugs, alongside other hygiene and cosmetic products.
In a major blow to the corrupt network, nine key operatives of the network were arrested, and 40 pharmacies and warehouses were seized in the course of the operation, the statement said.
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