Indian American man, 29-year-old, Ismail Ali Khan was stripped off his US citizenship after being convicted for more than five years in jail for conspiring to illegally distribute male enhancement pills imported from China.
Ismail Ali Khan was convicted and sentenced for falsely stating that he was not a criminal on his application to become a naturalized US citizen, federal prosecutors said.
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Prosecutors said Khan, a resident of Decatur in Georgia, and others have illegally imported pills from China containing an active ingredient in Viagra and distributed them throughout the US.
He was part of a criminal export ring that has hatched an elaborate scheme to import to the US, from China, the male enhancement pills with names such as “Maxman,” “Happy Passengers” .
The ring’s plot included mislabelling the scores of drugs to evade detection by the Food and Drug Administration and US Customs and Border Protection. The drugs were labelled as beauty products, pottery, coffee and tea, federal prosecutors had said.
Khan’s sentence would be followed by three years of supervised release.
“This defendant endangered the health of countless individuals by illegally importing and distributing drugs that can be obtained in the US only with a prescription written by a licensed, medical professional,” US Attorney John Horn said.
“What’s more, this defendant became a naturalized US citizen by giving a false statement to the government about his criminal history, while he was engaged in this illicit drug scheme. Khan’s willful criminal pursuit earned him more than a prison sentence. It cost him his citizenship and deportation after prison,” the attorney said.
At the sentencing hearing, Judge Steve C. Jones had ordered that Khan’s status as a naturalized US citizen to be revoked and his certificate of naturalization declared void. He ordered that Khan to be immediately deported to India, once he completes his prison term. At that time, supervised release will not be enforced.
Khan has filled out an application in 2013 to become a naturalized US citizen while the drug conspiracy was going on. He became a naturalized US citizen in March 2014.
By Premji
