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Jared Wheat the owner of Hi-Tech Pharmaceuticals has been sentenced to four years in prison and fined $3m (€2.3m) by the US Courts for importing unauthorised and adulterated pharmaceutical products.
Authorities said that he made and imported unauthorized generic versions of products including the impotency treatments Viagra (sildenafil citrate) and Cialis (tadalafil) in unsanitary conditions at a production facility in Belize.
US Attorney David Nahmias told the Atlanta Journal that Wheat and his four co-defendants had sold the drugs online to unsuspecting customers and added that it was very fortunate that none had been made ill as a result.
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