The United States on Wednesday imposed sanctions on two Indian citizens for their alleged role in supplying counterfeit prescription pills laced with fentanyl and other illicit drugs to persons in the country.

The Department of the Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control also designated one India-based online pharmacy for its role in the alleged criminal operations.

The foreign assets control unit identified Sadiq Abbas Habib Sayyed and Khizar Mohammad Iqbal Shaikh as key persons in an international network that allegedly pushed “hundreds of thousands” of counterfeit pills, projected as legitimate pharmaceutical products, into the US.

The pills were found to contain fentanyl, a fentanyl analogue and methamphetamine.

Fentanyl is a synthetic opioid blamed for widespread addictio

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