An Indian-American doctor, who owned weight loss clinics in the U.S., has been sentenced to two years in prison for illegally dispensing millions of pills containing amphetamine-based controlled substances to patients. The court in Indiana also sentenced his wife for federal income tax evasion related to their operation of the clinics.
Dr. Rakesh Anand, 57, and his wife Meena Anand, 53, both of whom owned and managed Doctors Weight Loss Clinics in Indiana and Illinois, were also ordered on Friday to pay $745,872 in restitution to the Internal Revenue Service from the $5.2 million that was seized from them.
Both of them had pleaded guilty in January.
