The U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) is charging two men with running a $227 million Medicare scheme.
According to a new press release, Syed Murtuza Kablazada, 34, of Arlington Heights, Illinois, and Syed Mehdi Hussain, 32, of Carol Stream, Illinois, owned and operated medical labs that submitted fake Medicare claims for COVID-19 test kit reimbursement that were allegedly never provided to beneficiaries.
As alleged in court documents, the defendants hired foreign nationals as owners of the labs asking for fraudulent Medicare claims with the plan for them to flee the country once the labs started being investigated.
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Not only did the labs rarely provide COVID-19 test kits to beneficiaries, but the defendants allegedly went so far as to pay a marketing company to acquire the
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