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.