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A pharmacist who helped criminals sell more than £1million illegal drugs on the black market has been kicked out of the profession.
Balkeet Singh Khaira used his connections as a chemist to order large quantities of prescription pills and flog them to drug dealers.
The 38-year-old ordered 29,000 packs of Diazepam, Nitrazepam, Tramadol, Zolpidem and Zopiclone while working for his mother's business.
Khaira, from Sutton Coldfield, West Midlands, confessed to five charges of supplying controlled drugs at Birmingham Crown Court in February this year and was sentenced to 12 months in jail.
Now, a fitness to practise committee of the General Pharmaceutical Council has ruled he will be struck off as a pharmacist.
Balkeet Singh Khaira, 38, used his connections as a chemist to order large quantities of prescription pills and flog them to drug dealers
The committee heard evidence that Khaira even pretended to be his mother in emails to the medicines and healthcare products regulatory agency (MHRA) to try and put investigators off the scent.
But he finally admitted his crimes when he was interviewed by police, telling them he was 'under duress' from another employee who was working with criminal gangs to sell the drugs.
The offences took place between February 2016 and August 2017 at the Khaira Pharmacy in West Bromwich.
The committee also heard evidence from the court case, in which Judge Heidi Kubik said in her sentencing remarks: 'These are serious offences.
'You allowed five different types of addictive Class C drugs to be diverted onto the black market in significant quantities, some 29,000 packs deemed so diverted with a potential street value of £1,052,000.
'The pharmacy was run by your mother for many years and your actions caused her to be arrested when she had done nothing wrong, and her business and reputation have suffered as a result of your
