Public Prosecution refers ‘Curcumin Doctor’ to criminal trial over selling unauthorized medicines

CAIRO – 22 February 2022: Egyptian Public Prosecution has referred a pharmacist to the criminal trial over selling unauthorized herbs and medicines on TV among other charges.

Pharmacist Ahmed Aboul-Nasr is known in the media as the “Curcumin Doctor” for the medicines he claimed they cure diabetes were made of the bright yellow-orange powder produce Curcuma plants.

Pharmacist Ahmed Aboul-Nasr

Before he was arrested on Saturday, Aboul-Nasr appeared in TV ads promoting his products, which attracted backlash from customers who accused him of promoting drugs not approved by the authorities.

He is also facing charges of fraud, impersonating a doctor, managing an unlicensed hospital and pharmacy.

On Sunday, a Cairo misdemeanor court sentenced on Sunday pharmacist Ahmed Aboul-Nasr to two and a half years in prison, and fined him 250,000.