Estonian National Sentenced for Conspiring to Import Fentanyl

Amid Magerramov, an Estonian national, was sentenced to 10 years in prison for conspiring to import large quantities of carfentanil and fentanyl into the U.S., after pleading guilty to the charges in May, the U.S. Attorney's Office for the Southern District of New York said. Between October 2017 and August 2018, Magerramov conspired to ship the drugs into the U.S., also participating in a series of recorded meetings with an individual he believed to be affiliated with an international drug trafficking organization but who was actually a confidential source for the Drug Enforcement Administration, the U.S. Attorney's office said. Magerramov prepared and shipped more than 5 kilograms of substances that contained the powerful opioid carfentanil for importation into the U.S. Along with his prison sentence, Magerramov was ordered to forfeit $38,500, the U.S. Attorney said.

“Amid Magerramov conspired to import into the U.S. large quantities of fentanyl and carfentanil -- an opioid so potent that its legitimate use is as an elephant sedative," U.S. Attorney Damian Williams said. "Appropriately, he has now been sentenced to prison for conspiring to add fuel to the fire that is the opioid crisis in this country.”