The U.S. healthcare seems too easy to steal from or how else would two Pakistani men would fraudulently bill Medicare and private insurers in excess of $10 million? The two men have been criminally charged in a federal court in Chicago according to the Department of Justice (DOJ) press release.
Burhan Mirza and Kashif Iqbal are the names of the Pakistani men indicted with multiple counts healthcare fraud and money laundering. The fraudsters laundered a lot of this money to Pakistan. Mirza, who is 31, didn’t even reside in America when he committed the fraud. The DOJ PR states:
In 2023 and 2024, Burhan Mirza and Kashif Iqbal, along with several co-schemers, used nominee-owned laboratories and durable medical equipment providers to submit fraudulent claims to Medicare and private health care benefit programs for items and services that were not provided, the indictment states.
Three other men were also part of these criminal schemes, one of them from Pakistan and one from India. The third one has a Muslim name of South Asian demographics – Mir Akbar Khan – but his citizenship or immigration history has not been revealed.
