Federal prosecutors on March 20 charged a former Sunnyvale resident with carrying out a large-scale fraud scheme that allegedly sought more than $90 million from Medicare Advantage programs by submitting thousands of false claims for medical equipment.
A federal grand jury indicted Anar Rustamov, 38, an Azerbaijani, on a charge of health care fraud, the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Northern District of California said. Authorities said Rustamov, suspected of entering the U.S. illegally, is currently at large.
According to the indictment, Rustamov used a company he created, Dublin Helping Hand, to submit claims between October 2024 and June 2025 for items such as blood glucose monitors and orthotic braces that were not provided, not medically necessary or not authorized by a provider…