Firms Pressed on Internet Drugs
The nation's largest credit card companies and shippers are being asked to explain their roles in facilitating sales of narcotics and other prescription drugs by illicit Internet pharmacies.
As part of an expanding probe of controlled substances online, the House Energy and Commerce Committee yesterday asked the heads of Visa International, MasterCard International, FedEx Corp. and United Parcel Service of America Inc. to detail how their firms identify and counter problem sites that use their services.
"We are particularly concerned about the role of credit card companies in the facilitation of illicit Internet pharmacy transactions," the committee chairman, W.J. "Billy" Tauzin (R-La.), and the chairman of the oversight subcommittee, James C. Greenwood (R-Pa.), wrote to Visa chief executive Malcolm Williamson.
Visa spokeswoman Rhonda Bentz said the company will "work with Congress to identify an appropriate solution."
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