Armen Kazarian
Armen Kazarian and aa criminal gang with roots in Armenia misled the U.S. Medicare program of $ 35 million, federal prosecutors said Wednesday. The organization would be charged for medical procedures never performed using stolen identities and clinics, who had just mail drops, reported the New York Times. Investigators said the bogus claims added up to $ 118 million and $ 35 million was paid.
“With 118 clinical and phantom $ 100 million in fictitious group turnover of international mafia has implemented a real franchise fraud” Preet Bharara the U.S. Attorney in Manhattan, said in a statement. Armen Kazarian, “As a manager, stole the money from taxpayers to the sick and elderly and ran with it until now.”
A total of 44 people named on Wednesday accused the seal, and 41 were arrested. Researchers have identified a suspect, Armen Kazarian, as “VOR”, a term of respect used for high-level gangster, the former Soviet Union countries. Armen Kazarian
