Police have arrested 15 people suspected of making and selling fake medicine in Fujian and Guangdong provinces, Legal Daily reported on Tuesday.

The customs bureau in Yiwu, in East China's Zhejiang province, intercepted a shipment of more than 1.6 million fake Viagra pills on March 31, the report said.

Police arrested a person named Zhou on July 6 for trafficking the fake pills. On July 25, police raided the fake-medicine production site where Zhou bought the counterfeit Viagra, seized fake medicine and 31 machines worth more than 14 million yuan ($2.2 million) and took 15 suspects into custody, according to the report.