BOSTON — A Michigan man has agreed to plead guilty to charges that he imported and sold illegal drugs including tramadol in Massachusetts and ran the scheme with a fraudulent Covid pandemic relief loan, the U.S. Attorney said Monday.
Donald Nchamukong, 37, was charged by Information with conspiracy to smuggle goods into the United States, to commit loan fraud and to distribute controlled substances, U.S. Attorney Leah Foley said in a statement.
Nchamukong will appear in federal court in Boston on an unspecified date.
According to the charging documents, starting in 2019 and continuing to 2022, Nchamukong and a co-conspirator, Doyal Kalita, conspired to distribute drugs to persons in the United States over the internet and use call centers in India.
Nchamukong allegedly used shell companies, including a purported dietary supplements company and an auto parts supplier, and associated bank and merchant accounts to process sales of illegal foreign drugs, including the opioid tramadol.
Nchamukong and Kalita also received shipments of tramadol from India and reshipped the drug to customers across the United States, including in Massachusetts, Foley said.
When the Covid-19 pandemic hit, Nchamukong and Kalita allegedly obtained a fraudulent $200,000 Economic Injury Disaster Loan to fund their illegal drug scheme.
Kalita was convicted in 2024 and sentenced to 10 years in prison for orchestrating the online drug distribution scheme and a technical support fraud scheme and related money laundering.
The charge of conspiracy provides for a sentence of up to five years in prison, three years of supervised release and a fine of up to $250,000, or twice the monetary gain or loss, whichever is greater.
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