As India prepares for massive roll out of coronavirus vaccine across the country, the Association of Private Detective and Investigators (APDI) has written to Prime Minister Narendra Modi offering help in dealing with the problem of counterfeit and fake items.
“During the Corona pandemic we saw the market flooding with fake sanitizers, medicines, health supplements and other critical items. We actively worked with various state governments and helped in seizure of such fake items. Now we have offered our help to government and various agencies who will be in-charge of distribution and administration of vaccine to check counterfeiting and supply of fake vaccines which is a high possibility in a big country like India,” said APDI Chairman Kunwar Vikram Singh at the International Corporate Investigators Summit.
“The Union Government had written to state governments about this crucial issue and later our investigators worked with various state police and local administrations in dealing with the situation. Our direct intervention had laid to seizure of fake items in big quantity,” he added.
Singh also said the International Corporate Investigators Summit was first of its kind in the world where leaders from corporate world from India and abroad gathered to discuss the issues and challenges that the corporate world in facing in various sectors. Challenges and problems of sectors like pharma, healthcare, hospitality, tour and travel, services and IT were thoroughly discussed in the Summit.