Pakistani Firm Shipped Fentanyl Analogs, Scams to US
Summary: A Dallas-based firm called eWorldTrade, charged by the DOJ with operating a marketplace that facilitated distribution of synthetic opioids including isotonitazene and carfentanyl, is connected through its founders to a network of U.S. and Pakistani companies accused of running online scams in trademark registration, ghostwriting, logo and app design. Records tie the eWorldTrade mark to Azneem Bilwani in Karachi, director of Abtach Ltd., which the USPTO accused in 2021 of an egregious scheme to deceive trademark applicants and which Pakistan's FIA charged alongside nearly four dozen others in what authorities called the biggest money laundering case in Pakistan's history.
Bottom line: The FIA said about 75 percent of customers in the trademark scheme received fake or fabricated trademarks, and one California plaintiff alleges she lost $100,000 to a ghostwriting firm in this network - a reminder that the same infrastructure moving opioid chemicals also runs consumer-facing fraud your employees and customers can encounter directly.
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