Washington, June 28
A federal grand jury on Monday convicted a New Yorker of importing illegal controlled substances from India and money laundering, a US attorney said.
Ezil Sezhian Kamalados of Queens in New York is facing up to 50 years in prison.
“The defendant is now a convicted drug dealer. He looses his pocket from the black-market sale of millions of illegal opioids and misbranded prescription pills, regardless of the harm caused by the abuse of these highly addictive and dangerous drugs,” said United States Attorney Brian Shanti said.
He said, “With today’s judgment, the respondent has to be hand in every aspect of his pill mill, from importing unapproved drugs from India to personally placing orders for these drugs for customers across the country.” is held responsible.”
According to federal prosecutors, between May 2018 and August 2019, Kamalados participated in an international drug-trafficking conspiracy that involved the importation of misbranded drugs from India into the US, including tramadol, a synthetic opioid, in which The drugs were re-formulated. A pellet mill operates out of a warehouse in Jamaica, Queens, and is shipping drugs via United States Mail to customers throughout the United States.
During the alleged conspiracy, Kamaldas and those working for him distributed lakhs of Tramadol tablets, sometimes buying hundreds of thousands of pills at a time.
Additionally, Kamalados conspired to launder the proceeds of the drug-smuggling operation by using illegal profits to reinvest in the business, including paying shipping costs incurred by his co-conspirators—which cost Federal Express approximately US$200,000. dollars, for which the payment was made. Extra bullets, it said.