QCPD director, Chief Supt. Guillermo Eleazar, and FDA representatives examine the beauty products seized in Tuesday’s raids. —JOAN BONDOC
After interrogating a businesswoman arrested earlier this week, the Quezon City police found another stockpile of unregistered beauty products worth at least P37 million inside a condo unit on Thursday morning.
Led by a team from the Food and Drug Administration, authorities discovered the goods stored in an eighth-floor unit at Cherry Orchard Suites on Saturn Street, Barangay Tandang Sora.
They included whitening products, mostly injectable glutathione, with no manufacturing and expiry dates, according to Quezon City Police District director, Chief Supt. Guillermo Eleazar.
On Tuesday, the QCPD arrested Michelle Cablayan when she showed up at a house in Bahay Toro where police found a hoard of beauty products worth P6.5 million in a raid earlier that day.
Cablayan later admitted keeping more of such products in the condo unit that was searched on Thursday, police said.
The unit served as a warehouse where the products were repacked before being sold online or to specific clinics, Eleazar said. —Jhesset O. Enano