Police arrested two people in Shanghai's Minhang district after finding illegal vaccines that were not properly stored. 

According to Minhang District prosecutors, a man identified only by his surname "Cao," sold cervical cancer vaccines to his customers. Cao owns a beauty shop in Hong Kong.  

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Authorities said that Cao met a man in a beauty and cosmetics conference in Hong Kong. The man introduced himself as a medical specialist in administering Gardasil, a type of human papillomavirus vaccine. 

The two agreed that Cao will refer mainland customers to the specialist, with Cao getting a commission of ¥840 ($129) for every vaccine injected. 

Soon, the specialist started to send the vaccines to Cao, who sold it for ¥6,500 ($997). Cao sent the vaccines to his customers' home without cooling it first for safety purposes. 

Police raided Cao's home in April last year and nabbed 21 vaccines. A judge recently fined him one year of jailtime. 

Meanwhile, another man in the same district was found with Gardasil vaccines in his home. The suspect heads the Shanghai branch of a Taiwanese company. He also got the vaccines in an overseas convention and sold them for ¥6,000 ($920) for each injection from June 2014 to April 2015. 

Reports said that these two arrests were not related to the recent scandal on underground vaccine rings that shook the Chinese public. Shanghai's local government insists that they have not found any trace of the said poorly-stored vaccines in the local market. The local health and family planning commission assured that the city's suppliers are all legal and control the storage, use, and transport of their vaccines. 

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