2 Florida Men Plead Guilty in Scheme to Illegally Export Biochemicals to China

Published on May 29, 2024

Tens of thousands of reference drugs and toxins for laboratories were illegally shipped to China in a multi-million-dollar scheme involving a U.S. university research employee and students, the Department of Justice (DOJ) recently announced. Pen Yu, also known as Ben Yu, a U.S. citizen residing in Gibsonton, Florida, fraudulently purchased deeply discounted biochemical products from MilliporeSigma between July 2016 and May 2023, according to U.S. prosecutors. MilliporeSigma is a subsidiary of Germany-based Merck KGaA. According to court documents, the biochemical products included analytical standards of cocaine, fentanyl, morphine, MDMA, amphetamine, methamphetamine, oxycodone, codeine, and ketamine. Analytical standards are substances that are used to calibrate scientific or medical instruments....

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