An Oakland County physician has been named in a federal indictment for his alleged role in illegally selling cancer treatment drugs.
West Bloomfield resident Naveed Aslam, MD, accused in an alleged multi-million dollar for-profit scheme which diverted expensive medications away from patients, faces 10 counts of illegally selling or trading prescription drugs and one count of conspiracy to illegally sell or trade prescription drugs.
According to the indictment, through his medical practice Somerset Hematology and Oncology, PC in Royal Oak, Aslam worked with others from 2019 to August 2023 to buy and sell the drugs for profit, intending to defraud and mislead. As stated in a news release from the Department of Justice, “The other individuals Dr. Aslam worked with identified customers interested in buying prescription cancer drugs, and they communicated with Dr. Aslam about what cancer drugs were requested.”…