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Owner of Turkish wholesaler pleads guilty in fake Avastin case
FDA badgeThe owner of Turkish wholesaler Ozay Pharmaceuticals has pleaded guilty to smuggling misbranded and adulterated cancer drugs into the US. Sabahaddin Akman pleaded guilty in a district court in St. Louis, Missouri, where he initially shipped the illegal drugs, which did not meet the FDA’s standards and had not been approved for distribution in the US. The FDA’s Office of Criminal Investigations (OCI) coordinated a complex, multi-layered international investigation that led to Akman’s arrest in Puerto Rico in January 2014. The investigation identified Akman and his company as a source of Altuzan, the Turkish version of Roche’s cancer treatment Avastin (bevacizumab).
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