Garcia-Cotte: Cypheme's intelligence led Chinese police to jail 18 counterfeiters
Hugo Garcia-Cotte · 45% of This Cancer Drug Was Fake — Here's How We Proved It · Dec 28, 2020 · at 38:53
Hugo Garcia-Cotte, CEO of Cypheme, describes how tracking data gathered by his startup's verification system enabled Chinese law enforcement to dismantle a counterfeit pharmaceutical operation.
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“18 criminals were sent to jail thanks to the intel we provided them, and we had no idea.”
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