A notorious fugitive on the FBI’s Most Wanted Fraudsters List for allegedly stealing more than half a billion dollars from Medicare was captured after an international manhunt.
Khalid Satary, 54, was cuffed in the Middle East on Monday after more than three years on the lam for allegedly orchestrating a scheme to defraud Medicare of over $547 million, the US Department of Justice announced on Tuesday.
Satary was indicted in 2019 in the Eastern District of Louisiana for allegedly billing Medicare for expensive and unnecessary genetic tests between 2016 and 2019, according to prosecutors.
The fraudster conspired with dozens of patient recruiters, telemarketing call centers, and telemedicine companies to craft deceptive marketing campaigns, illegal kickbacks, and bribes to create cancer genetic test samples that were reimbursed for up to $20,000 a pop, authorities alleged.
Satary is accused of billing Medicare a whopping total of over $547 million and paying millions of dollars in illegal kickbacks and bribes to doctors and patient recruiters.
e was sprung free on bond after his indictment with a condition to no longer work in the medical field.
But Satary allegedly continued conspiring with Houston-based laboratories in Texas to submit the phony genetic testing claims to Medicare, the DOJ said.
A federal arrest warrant was issued for Satary in 2022, but the quack failed to appear for a court hearing and allegedly fled the country.
He was found to have a fake Mexican passport with a phony name when regional partners busted him on Monday.
Satary was flown to the US and appeared in court in the Eastern District of Virginia on Tuesday.
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