New Delhi, Sept. 24 -- The US Department of the Treasury's Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) has imposed sanctions on two Indian nationals, Sadiq Abbas Habib Sayyed and Khizar Mohammad Iqbal Shaikh, for their involvement in supplying significant amounts of counterfeit prescription pills filled with fentanyl and other illicit drugs to victims across America.

Along with these two persons, the body has also identified an India-based online pharmacy for its role in these criminal operations, a release said.

Both offenders were linked to Dominican Republic and US-based narcotics traffickers and sold counterfeit pills across the country. They fulfilled the deed by marketing and selling these pills as discounted, legitimate pharmaceutica...