WHAT HEELS!: Online Pharmacy Fencing Operation
PharmaCare Health Services, a Sunrise, FL-based health & beauty care products wholesaler owned by owned by Pakistani brothers, Nasir "David" Khan and Asif "Jordan" Khan, “bought and sold approximately $7.9 million of stolen over-the-counter medications and health and beauty aids, which had not been legitimately obtained," federal prosecutors charged in a nine-count indictment, Daily Business Review reports:
PharmaCare Health Services stored, packaged, cleaned and distributed the medications and other products to retail businesses. It used professional shoplifters - known as boosters - to steal the merchandise, according to the indictment naming seven defendants.
The stolen products included teeth-whitening strips, razor blades and expensive creams, according to Ellie Michaud, spokeswoman for the Internal Revenue Service in West Palm Beach, which tracked the money in the operation.
Products were stolen from Walgreens, Target, CVS and Rite Aid, she said. She did not know what medications were targeted. …
The indictment from the office of U.S. Attorney Alex Acosta charges transportation of stolen goods, sale and receipt of stolen goods, money-laundering conspiracy and fraud conspiracy.
The investigation required the combined efforts of the FBI, Broward sheriff's office, IRS and U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement.
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