Police in South Korea arrested two Chinese students on Thursday who were reportedly caught selling diet pills that contained human flesh.
Law enforcement officials in the island province of Jeju arrested Mo Mo, 26, and Mo Ahn, 21, after finding that the two women, who are both attending university in South Korea, purchased 3,000 diet pills and 500 detox pills from a Chinese website which they then smuggled into the country illegally, according to The Korea Times. They forked over 20,000 Korean won (about $19) for each bottle of 30 pills, then sold each bottle for 60,000 won (roughly $56).
The women both made about 6 million won from their diet pill business - they told police that they intended on using their earnings to help pay for school.
When Jeju Maritime cops analyzed the pills at the National Forensic Service they discovered the diet medicine had a 100 percent match with human flesh, Korea Times reported.
The pills also consisted of sibutramine and phenolphthalein - two chemicals that are banned in most countries. Sibutramine is an oral anorexiant that was once used to treat obesity, but was pulled from the market after multiple cases of cardiovascular issues and increased risk of stroke. Phenolphthalein, an over-the-counter laxative, was outlawed after concerns of carcinogenicity surfaced.
Jeju police reported they'd expand their investigation on this incident.
