FBI detains Palestinian fraud suspect
Palestinian businessman Khaled Ahmed Sutari, aged 54, has been arrested for leading a large-scale scheme to defraud the U.S. Medicare health insurance program. He had been on the run from authorities for over three years. He is accused of submitting fraudulent claims totaling more than $547 million for unnecessary genetic tests. He operated through medical and diagnostic laboratories in multiple U.S. states, using marketing companies and intermediaries to attract patients, and paying bribes to doctors to direct samples for genetic testing. He was detained in an unspecified location with a forged passport, then transferred to Washington. He now faces up to 20 years in prison if convicted.
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