Couple arrested for making 70,000 bottles fake Singapore Eagle Brand Medicated Oil

By Quoc Thang July 1, 2025 | 07:10 pm PT

A couple have been arrested for operating a company in HCMC that manufactured and sold 70,000 bottles of counterfeit Singapore product Eagle Brand Medicated Oil and thousands of other fake products.

Vo Thanh Tam, its CEO, his wife Ngo Anh Hong and 15 others were apprehended Tuesday for "producing and trading fake goods classified as medicinal or preventive drugs."

Vo Thanh Tam, CEO of My Trinh Cosmetics, seen at a police station in Ho Chi Minh City in July 2025. Photo courtesy of HCMC police

The police had monitored the activities of the company, My Trinh Cosmetics, and another under the couple’s management.

They found they produced seven different types of fake Eagle Brand Medicated Oil, a popular product in Singapore used to treat muscular and joint pains.

They had distributed 70,000 of them since 2022, equivalent to VND6 billion (US$230,000) worth of genuine products.

Authentic Eagle Brand Medicated Oil products. Photo courtesy of Borden Company (Private) Limited

Police raids also turned up hundreds of thousands of other suspected counterfeit products, which are currently being scrutinized.

They include Thai moisturizing cream, Thai "old man" oil, Korean roll-on oil and others.

The couple said they purchased ingredients and packages from unregulated sources and hired employees to produce the fake medicated oils and cosmetics.