The Ho Chi Minh City People’s Court on Jan. 30 meted out sentences with a total jail term of seven years to a Chinese woman for trading false medicines and sex toys.

Yao Xiu Yan, 39, got a five-year imprisonment sentence for trading fake medicines and two years behind bars for processing, transporting and trading forbidden goods, said the court’s verdict.

According to the indictment, Yao and her husband, Cheng Tian Kun, 43, entered HCM City in 2004 to set up their business. From October 2005 to middle 2007, the couple illegally transported a large volume of aphrodisiacs and gonadotrophic tools from China into Vietnam.

In June 2007, police seized a batch of fake medicines and sex toys worth US$62,500 while raiding a house in District 5 rented by Yan and Cheng, who had run away.