The U.S. Treasury has sanctioned two Indian nationals and an online pharmacy for supplying counterfeit fentanyl-laced pills that fuelled America’s opioid crisis.

The U.S. Department of the Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) on September 24 announced sanctions on Sadiq Abbas Habib Sayyed, born December 8, 1985, and Khizar Mohammad Iqbal Shaikh, born July 7, 1991, both Indian citizens, along with Shaikh’s company KS International Traders, also known as KS Pharmacy. OFAC accused them of working with Dominican Republic- and U.S.-based narcotics traffickers to distribute counterfeit pills laced with fentanyl, fentanyl analogues, and methamphetamine.

“Too many families have been torn apart by fentanyl. Today, we are acting to hold accountable those who profit from this poison,”

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