India, Sept. 25 -- The United States Department of the Treasury on Wednesday imposed sanctions on two Indian nationals accused of running a counterfeit drug network that supplied fentanyl-laced prescription pills to victims across the United States. An India-based online pharmacy linked to the racket has also been blacklisted.

Sadiq Abbas Habib Sayyed and Khizar Mohammad Iqbal Shaikh were identified as central figures in the scheme by the Treasury's Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC).

According to US authorities, the duo, both based in India, worked with traffickers in the Dominican Republic and the US to push "hundreds of thousands" of fake pills, which were falsely marketed as legitimate pharmaceuticals but contained fentanyl, fe...