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British Indian Pair Fight US Extradition Over Cancer Drug Fraud Allegations
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News18•04-10-2026, 14:15
British Indian Pair Fight US Extradition Over Cancer Drug Fraud Allegations
- •Sukhi Ghuman and Kiranjit Ghuman, a British Indian ex-couple, are fighting extradition to the US on charges of defrauding American health programs out of millions by providing unapproved cancer drugs.
- •The pair allegedly obtained cheap, unapproved chemotherapy and other drugs from overseas, using them on cancer patients at oncology clinics they controlled in California and Arizona, with some medicine reportedly out of date.
- •A warrant for their arrest was issued in October 2023 by the District Court of the Southern District of California in San Diego, following an investigation between September 2019 and April 2023.
- •They also face separate drug smuggling charges, with one of their oncology clinics accused of reselling FDA-approved drugs without a proper license.
- •The alleged offenses occurred while the Ghumans lived in the US, and the drug smuggling charge carries a maximum sentence of 20 years if convicted; their defense teams are contesting the charges on human rights grounds.
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The British Indian pair are accused of defrauding American health programmes out of millions of dollars by providing unapproved and out-of-date chemotherapy and cancer drugs to patients at their clinics in California and Arizona.
A warrant for the arrest of Sukhi and Kiranjit Ghuman was issued by the District Court of the Southern District of California in San Diego in October 2023.
The defence teams representing Sukhi and Kiranjit Ghuman have contested the US extradition request on human rights grounds, and a ruling is expected at a later date.
