Man Jailed for Selling Fake Viagra

Yu Bohuai, the general manager of a Shanghai chemical company, was sentenced to two years in prison on Thursday for allegedly selling tablets of the male impotence drug, Viagra  According to a Xinhua news agency, the man sold the fake Viagra over the internet.  Bohuai made over 60,000 yaun, $8,585, between 2006 and 2007 by selling 14,030 tablets to clients in Shanghai.

Bohuai was arrested in July.

Marketed by Pfizer (NYSE:PFE), Viagra was approved to treat impotence in 1998 by the US Food and Drug Administration.