Illegal prescription drug sellers arraigned on charges for smuggling illicit cancer drugs into the United States
Two individuals on 13 FEB 2014 were arraigned for charges that they, among other things, smuggled adulterated and misbranded prescription cancer treatments from Turkey and other countries into the United States and conspired to defraud the United States and the U.S. Food and Drug Administration. The drugs did not meet the FDA’s standards and had not been approved for distribution in the United States.