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Indian National Pleads Guilty In $227 Million COVID Test Scam, Bought Data From Pakistani Firm

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Indian National Pleads Guilty In $227 Million COVID Test Scam, Bought Data From Pakistani Firm Syed Murtuza Kablazada, an Indian national living in Des Plaines, Illinois, pleaded guilty Friday to a Medicare fraud scheme that billed $227 million for over-the-counter COVID-19 test kits nobody ordered , the Justice Department said . Prosecutors say he paid about $11 million to a purported telemarketing company in Pakistan for the personal information of hundreds of thousands of Medicare beneficiaries, then used it to file the claims. Kablazada, 36, and his co-schemers bought three Chicago-area…

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    Indian National Pleads Guilty In $227 Million COVID Test Scam, Bought Data From Pakistani Firm Syed Murtuza Kablazada, an Indian national living in Des Plaines, Illinois, pleaded guilty Friday to a Medicare fraud scheme that billed $227 million for over-the-counter COVID-19...

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