Indian National Pleads Guilty in $227 Million Medicare Fraud
CHICAGO — An Indian national living in Illinois has pleaded guilty to participating in a $227 million Medicare fraud scheme that used personal information purchased from a Pakistani company to bill the federal government for COVID-19 test kits that were never requested or delivered.
Syed Murtuza Kablazada, 36, of Des Plaines, Illinois, pleaded guilty to two counts of health care fraud after admitting his role in a scheme that generated approximately $136 million in improper Medicare payments.
According to the Justice Department, Kablazada and his co-conspirators acquired three Chicago-area laboratories—Chicago Care, V Care and Al-Ameer—and used them to submit fraudulent claims involving hundreds of thousands of Medicare beneficiaries…