Brooklyn-based prescription drug trafficking ring busted
Nearly $3.4 million in pills diverted
State and federal officials on Wednesday announced the indictment of five members of a prescription drug trafficking ring.
A nine-month wiretap investigation revealed that ring eader Sergey Plotits established medical offices in Sheepshead Bay and other Brooklyn neighborhoods for the sole purpose of illegally collecting and distributing large quantities of highly addictive prescription medication, according to the indictment.
Among those charged in the indictment, which was filed by the Special Narcotics Prosecutor’s Prescription Drug Investigation Unit, is Zhanna Kanevsky, a physician hired by Plotits to write prescriptions at a medical office he established at 1763 East 12th Street in Sheepshead Bay.