TWO pharmaceutical companies based in India were charged with smuggling chemicals used in the production of the deadly drug fentanyl, federal prosecutors in New York announced.

Two Indian chemical companies and an executive are indicted in the U.S. for conspiring to export fentanyl precursors.

Prosecutors claim Raxuter Chemicals shipped 20 kilograms of the chemicals to New York, falsely labeled as an antacid.

USA-CRIME-FENTANYL-INDIA:Two Indian companies indicted in US for importing ingredients used in opioid fentanyl

Raxuter Chemicals and Athos Chemicals face charges for importing fentanyl precursors to the US, marking a significant legal action against Indian firms.

Two Indian chemical companies have been indicted for allegedly importing ingredients for the highly addictive opioid fentanyl into the United States and Mexico

Sheinbaum took time during her daily press conference to "debunk" a New York Times article on a Sinaloa Cartel fentanyl lab in Mexico.

Two pharmaceutical companies based in India have been charged with smuggling chemicals used in the production of the deadly opioid fentanyl

Raxuter Chemicals and Athos Chemicals -- have been charged with criminal conspiracies to distribute and import fentanyl precursor chemicals to the United State.

Two Indian companies, Raxuter Chemicals and Athos Chemicals, along with Raxuter's senior executive Bhavesh Lathiya, have been charged with conspiring to distribute and import fentanyl precursors to the U.

Indian companies Raxuter Chemicals and Athos Chemicals charged with distributing fentanyl precursor chemicals to the US.