The United States on Thursday announced sanctions against two Indian nationals and an India-based online pharmacy for supplying counterfeit prescription pills laced with fentanyl and other illicit drugs to Americans.

The US Treasury Department’s sanctions arm alleged that Sadiq Abbas Habib Sayyed and Khizar Mohammad Iqbal Shaikh worked with traffickers in the US and Dominican Republic to push pills marketed as legitimate medicines, which were instead filled with fentanyl, fentanyl analogues, and methamphetamine. Both allegedly used encrypted platforms to run their operations and reach customers.

Shaikh, who owns KS International Traders (also known as KS Pharmacy), was accused of using the company to further his criminal activities. Despite being indicted on narcotics-related charges by

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