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An Iowa company, SmartScripts, will pay over $132,000 to a Michigan company to settle a case involving fake Ozempic.

The Iowa Board of Pharmacy previously fined SmartScripts $25,000 and placed its CEO's license on probation for five years.

The company's CEO claimed he did not know the drug was fake and that none of it reached patients.

An Iowa company accused of selling fake Ozempic has agreed to pay $132,249 to a Michigan company to settle a civil case in Washington County.

The settlement came after the Iowa Board of Pharmacy fined SmartScripts $25,000 in August and placed CEO Todd Thompson's license on probation for five years for selling the counterfeit Ozempic.

The pharmacy board required SmartScripts, located about 30 miles south of Iowa City, where Thompson

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