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ARMENIAN FRAUDSTER ADMITS GUILT OVER US SMUGGLING RING
RAPSI - Russian Legal Information Agency
Oct 29 2012
NEW YORK, October 29 - RAPSI. David Mirzoyan, a key member of the
notorious international organized crime enterprise known as the
Mirzoyan-Terdjanian Organization that stole more than $100 million
through a wide-range of money making fraudulent schemes, has pleaded
guilty, the office of U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New
York Preet Bharara said.
The organization stole the identities of licensed doctors and thousands
of real Medicare beneficiaries and then filed applications to bill
Medicare in the names of the doctors, providing clinic addresses which
were more often than not mailbox addresses. Each clinic existed for
a maximum of three months. After receiving the money for the sham
services, the organization would close the clinic and set up a new one.
>From 2006, with the stolen identities of doctors and patients in hand,
the organization billed Medicare for over $100 million for fictitious
treatment.
In November 2010, the U.S. authorities initiated criminal cases
against 73 individuals on charges of stealing personal data, running
counterfeit credit card schemes and trading smuggled cigarettes and
fake medication.
The investigators' material reads that most of the accused are
Armenian, Kazakh, Russian and Ukrainian born residents.
Mirzoyan faces 75 years in prison. His sentence will be announced on
February 6, 2013.
http://rapsinews.com/judicial_news/20121029/265161401.html
From: Baghdasarian
RAPSI - Russian Legal Information Agency
Oct 29 2012
NEW YORK, October 29 - RAPSI. David Mirzoyan, a key member of the
notorious international organized crime enterprise known as the
Mirzoyan-Terdjanian Organization that stole more than $100 million
through a wide-range of money making fraudulent schemes, has pleaded
guilty, the office of U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New
York Preet Bharara said.
The organization stole the identities of licensed doctors and thousands
of real Medicare beneficiaries and then filed applications to bill
Medicare in the names of the doctors, providing clinic addresses which
were more often than not mailbox addresses. Each clinic existed for
a maximum of three months. After receiving the money for the sham
services, the organization would close the clinic and set up a new one.
>From 2006, with the stolen identities of doctors and patients in hand,
the organization billed Medicare for over $100 million for fictitious
treatment.
In November 2010, the U.S. authorities initiated criminal cases
against 73 individuals on charges of stealing personal data, running
counterfeit credit card schemes and trading smuggled cigarettes and
fake medication.
The investigators' material reads that most of the accused are
Armenian, Kazakh, Russian and Ukrainian born residents.
Mirzoyan faces 75 years in prison. His sentence will be announced on
February 6, 2013.
http://rapsinews.com/judicial_news/20121029/265161401.html
From: Baghdasarian