Charging $22 for each 90ml bottle of cough syrup, a doctor who practised in Bedok's Temasek Clinic and Surgery dispensed his drugs under the counter, aiding 30 addicts in their slumps for nine months.
46-year-old Dr Liew Kert Chian supplied the codeine-laced medication without keeping a proper record — reports of the sales were first made in pencil and later erased. The Singapore Medical Council has since sentenced him to a years' suspension, censure and a fine of $5,000.
A total of 266 litres of Procodin Syrup and 11.4 litres of Beacodyl Syrup were unaccounted for — all of which were noted to be sold in a systemic ploy from January to October 2011.