Hammond, IN-(ENEWSPF)- A suspended physician who owned weight loss clinics in northwest Indiana and south suburban Chicago was sentenced to two years in federal prison for illegally dispensing millions of pills containing amphetamine-based controlled substances to patients, and he and his wife were also sentenced for federal income tax evasion relating to their operation of the clinics. The defendants, DR. Rakesh Anand and Meena Anand, who owned and managed Doctors Weight Loss Clinics in Merrillville, Indiana, and Tinley Park and Orland Park in Illinois, were also ordered to pay $745,872 in restitution to the IRS from nearly $5.2 million that was seized from them and ordered forfeited.
