Jail and fine for AMK doctor who sold cough syrup wholesale

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A doctor who made S$266,800 from selling codeine-based cough syrup wholesale to three patients has been sentenced to seven-and-a-half months' jail and fined S$60,000.

Ho Thong Chew, 41, was sentenced today, about a month after he pleaded guilty in June to the 35 charges.

He had sold more than 800 canisters of the cough syrup to three of his patients. The cough syrup was in turn sold to codeine abusers.

Ho's offences were discovered after the Health Sciences Authority was alerted about the large volume of codeine-based cough syrup bought by the clinic in Ang Mo Kio between January and May last year.

The father of two had been running his own clinic, Focus Medical Group, for seven years until it was shut down recently by the Health Ministry.

District Judge Christopher Goh said that Ho was consumed by greed and was not as naive and innocent as he put himself to be during mitigation.