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Second Turkish Man Sentenced for Smuggling Counterfeit Cancer Drugs

Other business partner in drug wholesaling scheme was sentenced in October 2014

Silver Spring, Maryland–(ENEWSPF)–January 23, 2015.  Today, the U.S. District Court of the Eastern District of Missouri sentenced Sabahhadin Akman, an owner of the Turkish firm Ozay Pharmaceuticals, to 30 months imprisonment and a $150,000 fine for smuggling counterfeit, misbranded and adulterated cancer treatment drugs into the U.S., including multiple shipments of Altuzan, the Turkish version of Avastin.

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In August 2014, Akman pleaded guilty

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