The US Department of the Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) has sanctioned two Indian nationals, Sadiq Abbas Habib Sayyed and Khizar Mohammad Iqbal Shaikh, along with an India-based online pharmacy, KS International Traders, for their alleged involvement in supplying large quantities of counterfeit prescription pills filled with fentanyl and other illicit drugs to victims across the United States.

Sayyed and Shaikh worked with narcotic traffickers based in the US and the Dominican Republic to sell counterfeit pills to Americans, stated a release by OFAC.

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Counterfeit pills sold as medicines

It further stated that the two accused marketed and sold these pills as discounted and legitimate medicine

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