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A fentanyl-dealing pharmacist who faked a robbery at his own drug dispensary to cover up an elaborate million-dollar drug scheme has been sentenced to 14 years behind bars and to pay more than $36,000 in restitution for his fraud.

It is, to date, the stiffest sentence ever handed down in the country to a pharmacist for fentanyl crimes.

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Waseem Shaheen reported a knifepoint robbery at his Rideau Street I.D.A. pharmacy in October 2014, where he said a masked bandit had made away with more than $25,000 worth of fentanyl patches. A man had indeed entered the pharmacy and was caught on surveillance video acting out what looked like a robbery. But it was all a ruse — a cover-up to hide that Shaheen himself was trafficking the deadly drug.

His co-conspirator Mehdi Rostaee, a drug addict he enlisted to do the dirty work, went to robbery detectives investigating the case with an audio recording of the two men planning the fictitious hold-up.