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Sanjay Kumar, 43, of Bihar, India, was indicted by a federal grand jury on Thursday.
He was arrested Friday in Houston while in the United States to negotiate additional deals to expand his illicit business selling fake oncology pharmaceuticals in the United States, according to the U.S. Department of Justice.
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A man has been arrested in Houston, Texas, accused of selling and shipping tens of thousands of dollars worth of counterfeit cancer drugs to people in the United States. (iStock)
Kumar and his co-conspirators are accused of orchestrating the sale and shipment of counterfeit versions of Keytruda and other oncology pharmaceuticals to unsuspecting individuals in the United States.
The Justice Department said the real Keytruda is a cancer immunotherapy approved in the United States for 19 different indications, including the treatment of lung cancer, head and neck cancer, gastric cancer, cervical cancer, breast cancer, Hodgkin's lymphoma and melanoma.
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Sanjay Kumar was arrested in Houston on Friday while he was in the United States to negotiate additional deals to expand his illicit business. (iStock)
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According to the Justice Department, Merck Sharp & Dohme LLC has the exclusive right to manufacture and distribute Keytruda in the United States.
Kumar is charged with one count of conspiracy to traffic in counterfeit drugs and four counts of trafficking in counterfeit drugs. If convicted, he faces up to 20 years in prison on each count.