Treasury Dept Sanctions Indian Drug Traffickers for Flooding US With Fentanyl

The U.S. Treasury Department on Wednesday sanctioned two Indian nationals and an online pharmacy for flooding America with counterfeit pills laced with fentanyl and other deadly drugs.

The Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) designated Sadiq Abbas Habib Sayyed, 39, and Khizar Mohammad Iqbal Shaikh, 34, for their roles in trafficking hundreds of thousands of fake prescription pills to unsuspecting Americans.

Authorities say the duo worked with U.S.- and Dominican-based drug traffickers to market what looked like legitimate medication but were in fact poison-packed pills.

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