Online Retailer Pleads Guilty to Selling Counterfeit Contact Lenses
Dmitriy Melnik pleaded guilty in a Nevada federal court to conspiracy charges for trafficking in counterfeit contact lenses, the Department of Justice said in a news release (here). Melnik, who owned and operated Candy Color Lenses, knowingly importing counterfeit lenses…
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from China and South Korea, the plea agreement said. Melnik then sold the products over the internet to customers without a prescription. "The prosecution is the result of an ongoing multiagency effort to combat counterfeit, illegally imported and unapproved contact lenses called Operation Double Vision," the DOJ said. "The FDA’s Office of Criminal Investigations led the investigation, with significant support from the U.S. Postal Inspection Service and the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s Homeland Security Investigations."