Woman fined for selling Malaysia-imported weight loss pills that contained 'poison' on Qoo10, Shopee, Instagram

SINGAPORE: After trying out a weight loss product and finding it effective, a woman began importing bottles of the pills from Malaysia and selling them online to customers in Singapore via Qoo10, Shopee and Instagram.

Maithili Vijayakumar, 37, was fined S$6,000 by a court on Thursday for one charge of possessing for sale 13 bottles of capsules that contained sibutramine, a poison listed under the Poisons Act.The court heard that Maithili ordered the pills in January 2020 for her own consumption. They were marketed to be of"safe medical grade" and as the"No. 1 clinical weight-loss formula in Korea", containing natural ingredients like amino acids and green tea extract.

One of her customers bought a bottle for S$110 from Qoo10 in May 2020 and developed a rapid heartbeat, dizziness and other symptoms. Even after halving the dose and later discontinuing the consumption of the pills, the symptoms persisted and the woman made a report to the HSA.The substance was previously a prescription-only medicine for weight loss, and was banned in Singapore since 2010 because of the increased risk of heart attacks and strokes.

When the HSA inspected Maithili's home in June 2020, they found 13 bottles of Clinic K with 780 capsules in total and seized them.

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Clinic K pills contained sibutramine, a substance banned in Singapore since 2010 because of an increased risk of heart attacks and strokes. Not ban in Korea & Malaysia is it?

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