Counterfeit Cancer Drug Smuggler Pleads Guilty in Federal Court
A Turkish man pleaded guilty on July 22 to smuggling "counterfeit, misbranded and adulterated cancer treatment drugs into the United States," said the Justice Department in a news release. Ozkan Semizoglu admitted in a plea agreement to using "shipping labels…
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that concealed the illegal nature of the prescription drug shipments, including customs declarations falsely describing the contents as 'gifts' or 'documents' or 'product sample' with no or low declared monetary values," said DOJ. The shipments were sent from Turkey to Chesterfield, Missouri.