A 65-year-old Nigerian doctor, Ndubusi Joseph Okafor, was found guilty by a Federal Jury in U. S District Court in connection with illegally distributing prescriptions for narcotics in exchange for cash from his Northwest Washington DC medical clinic.
Okafor, of Upper Marlboro, Maryland, was convicted on Friday March 21, 2025, the U.S Department of Justice announced in a statement.
The Jury found Okafor guilty of conspiracy to distribute controlled substances (outside the practice of medicine) maintaining a drug-involved premise, and 22 counts of unlawful distribution of controlled substances (oxycodone and promethazine with codeine) U.S District Judge D. Bates schedule sentencing hearing for June 2025.
According tithe court documents and evidence at trial, between May 2021 and April 2023, Okafor was the sole proprietor and owner of Okafor Medical Associates, an internal medicine clinic in Northwest Washington.
The USAO and FBI began investigating Okafor for illegal distribution of controlled substances after it received information from law enforcement agencies nationwide regarding prescriptions from Okafor being connected to local drug trafficking networks.
-9News Nigeria.
