An Indian man has been sentenced by U.S. District Court Judge Mark L. Wolf to more than 7 years in prison in America for importing illegal drugs from India and Singapore.
34-year-old Manish Kumar has been convicted for shipping millions of illegal and unapproved pills from India and Singapore to the US, U.S. Attorney’s Office, District of Massachusetts said on 19 January 2023. He trafficked the pills to people who did not have prescriptions.
A US District Court sentenced Kumar to 87 months in prison and 3 months of supervised release, along with a $100,000 fine.
Kumar’s operation directly marketed drugs to customers in the US through advertising and calls to prospective customers from call centers in India. As part of the conspiracy, Kumar personally directed and managed shipments of drugs from drug suppliers in Singapore and India into Massachusetts and other states, it said.
Specifically, Kumar trafficked prescription drugs including generic erectile dysfunction drugs, and Schedule II controlled substances, such as hydrocodone, oxycodone and tapentadol, and Schedule IV controlled substances, such as tramadol.
According to the Justice Department, Kumar was a partner in Mihu Business Solutions Pvt., Ltd., a Mumbai-based drug company which he operated through multiple entities, including “All Herb Distributors,” “365 Life Group,” and “Health Life 365 Co.” From at least 2015 until 2019, when Kumar was arrested on unrelated charges, Kumar used these entities to ship millions of illegal and unapproved prescription pills into the United States to individuals who did not have prescriptions.
Kumar’s operation directly marketed drugs to customers in the United States through advertising and calls to prospective customers from call centers in India. As part of the
conspiracy, Kumar personally directed and managed shipments of drugs from drug suppliers in Singapore and India into Massachusetts and other states.
In total, Kumar’s drug business generated more than USD 3.5 million in revenue and shipped millions of illegal and unapproved pills into the United States to individuals who did not have prescriptions, prosecutors said.
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