Doctor Accused Of Making Money Illegally Over Phentermine
A Georgia-based doctor and six other physicians have been convicted for prescribing pills of phentermine, the weight loss drug online to patients without any knowledge on the patient's health status and making a profit of $75 million along the way.
The accused Vladimir Andries who has freed himself on $100,000 bond is a retired practitioner of Orange Regional Medical Center . According to confidential sources from this hospital, Vladimir Andries started working there in 1987, and had access to both the Arden Hill campus in Goshen and Horton campus in Middletown .
On 21 st August the doctor was presented before a federal jury and charged of selling 18,500 phentermine prescriptions illegally over the cyberspace in 2003. These prescriptions were authorized to customers across USA on several websites which were operated and owned by Atlanta-based Dr. Troy Sobert and Dr. Christopher Stoufflet respectively. The judges also convicted six other doctors of Texas and California along with him for masterminding the illegal drug deal and selling phentermine to websites based in Atlanta . At the hearing all the doctors were accused of violating the federal Controlled Substances Act.
As the charges were made clear against him, the doctor strongly pleaded that he was innocent and not in any way involved in the $75 million scandal.
Source: recordonline.com August 23, 2006 |
