US orders Puerto Rico drug distribution company to pay $12 million in opioid case

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The U.S. Justice Department says one of Puerto Rico’s biggest distributors of pharmaceutical drugs has been ordered to pay $12 million after being accused of not reporting hundreds of suspicious orders for controlled substances.

SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico — One of Puerto Rico’s biggest distributors of pharmaceutical drugs was ordered to pay $12 million after being accused of not reporting hundreds of suspicious orders for controlled substances, the U.S. Justice Department said Monday.and at least 113 orders for oxycodone from 2016 through June 2019. The orders were considered suspicious given in part their frequency and size, the department said.

The company also is accused of hundreds of record-keeping violations and of not submitting reports of its distribution transactions to the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration, including those involvingIn addition, the company was ordered to improve its compliance program and report suspicious orders to the DEA, among other things.The complaint filed by the U.S. government comes after the U.S. territory of 3.

 

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