A now-defunct non-emergency medical transportation company and its owner are facing charges related to “a complex money laundering and transportation fraud scheme,” the Massachusetts Attorney General’s Office announced Wednesday.
Former Billerica resident Bakali Mukasa, 44, and his former company, JBM Health and Educational Services Inc., have been indicted by a grand jury on one count each of money laundering, larceny over $1,200 and making false Medicaid claims, the attorney general’s office said in a press release.
Part of JBM Health’s services was to give rides to methadone clinics to members of MassHealth, the state’s Medicaid provider, the attorney general’s office said. Investigators discovered that, between July 2019 and November 2020, Mukasa and JBM Health billed MassHealth for nearly 17,000 such rides that never happened…