The United States has sanctioned two Indian nationals and an India-based online pharmacy for allegedly flooding the American market with counterfeit prescription drugs laced with fentanyl and methamphetamine.

Who has been sanctioned?

The US Department of the Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) on September 24 designated: Sadiq Abbas Habib Sayyed, Khizar Mohammad Iqbal Shaikh, and KS International Traders (also known as KS Pharmacy), an online pharmacy run by Shaikh.

Both men, based in India, allegedly worked with traffickers in the United States and the Dominican Republic to market counterfeit pills as legitimate pharmaceutical products. In reality, the pills were laced with fentanyl, fentanyl analogues, and methamphetamine.

How the network operated

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