The Paphos District Court issued a six-day detention order against a 20-year-old man to facilitate investigations into an investigating case of forged prescriptions.
According to PAPA Press Spokesman and Head of the Pafos Traffic Police, Michael Nicolaou, on Monday evening, at 20:00, members of the Pafos Traffic Police stopped a car driven by a 33-year-old man against whom a court warrant for his arrest from the Famagusta and Nicosia Traffic Police was pending.
The passenger in the vehicle was a 20-year-old man in possession of allegedly three prescriptions from a specific doctor, filled with names and dates for a specific drug containing codeine, which is a substitute for a narcotic substance.
It was suspected that the prescriptions may have been forged. Examinations conducted by members of the Pafos CID found that the doctor in question has been ill, not working and bedridden for the last period of time, so, Mr Nicolaou said, it was impossible for him to sign such prescriptions.
A search at the 20-year-old's residence found - according to police - a stamp of the doctor in question with his name and a number of bottles of the drug in question. Subsequently, the 20-year-old was arrested on a court warrant for forging prescriptions and is under six-day detention. He denies any involvement with the case
The driver of the vehicle was handed over to Famagusta CID for further investigations
Investigations are continuing by Paphos CID
Source: KYPE
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