The US Department of the Treasury has imposed sanctions on two Indian nationals and an India-based online pharmacy for supplying counterfeit prescription pills laced with fentanyl and other illicit drugs to victims across the United States.

The Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) named Sadiq Abbas Habib Sayyed and Khizar Mohammad Iqbal Shaikh along with Shaikh’s company KS International Traders, also known as KS Pharmacy, for their role in trafficking hundreds of thousands of fake pills marketed as legitimate pharmaceuticals.

“Too many families have been torn apart by fentanyl. Today, we are acting to hold accountable those who profit from this poison,” said John K Hurley, Under Secretary for Terrorism and Financial Intelligence, adding that the move was part of President

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