Of course it was fraud. It wasn't just an "aggressive" timeline,
IT WAS A PHYSICALLY IMPOSSIBLE TIMELINE that Seymour and Diwan told investors to rely upon, that was contrary to the information the FDA makes publicly available.
It is physically impossible to complete everything required for FDA approval of *ANY* drug within years of Seymour's and Diwan's timelines.
Seymour and Diwan just made up those impossible timelines to trick investors into investing in NNVC based on their lies.
No drug in the history of the FDA has ever been approved within years of what Seymour and Diwan were telling investors.
That's because IT IS PHYSICALLY IMPOSSIBLEto complete all of the requirements for FDA approval of *ANY* drug within those timelines.
The fact that Seymour and Diwan were willfully defrauding the investing public with fictional and impossible timelines is clearly supported by the data the FDA has made publicly available ever since they've had a public website: http://www.fdareview.org/03_drug_development.php
Seymour and Diwan decided to misinform investors about the minimum amount of time it takes to develop *any* drug, and about the risks in doing so. And not just by a little bit.
When Seymour and Diwan made that choice, they clearly crossed the line. And then they made themselves multimillionaires by doing so, at the expense of NNVC investors.
The U.K. also has provisions allowing for doctors to buy drugs that are not yet approved. Tox and some clinical are needed first, I think. Might be a fairly short path to having a herpes/shingles cream for sale through this route.