Feds want a Utah pharmacist who illegally imported malaria drugs to destroy them. He’s pitching a different plan.

The CEO says prosecutors should let him repurpose the drugs, discredited as a treatment for COVID-19 but long used for malaria and rheumatoid arthritis.

(Courtesy Dan Richards) Dan Richards, CEO of Meds in Motion, sits on top of a drug shipment at a warehouse in Draper. In June 2020, federal investigators confiscated the hydroxychloroquine and chloroquine and later charged Richards with importing them illegally.

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Bethany RodgersGovernment Reporter

Bethany began covering state government at The Tribune right in time for the 2018 election. She's a proud Maryland Terrapin and worked at newspapers in the D.C. area and in Orlando, Florida, before coming to Utah. Her aspiration is to one day keep an orchid alive for more than a month.