Businessman Admits COVID Test Kit Fraud

Rashid Naqvi admitted to fraudulently obtaining $1.9 million from Medicare for COVID-19 test kits. He operated two laboratories that he used to submit claims to Medicare: Elite Diagnostics Inc. and Astro Diagnostics Inc. He got patients’ Medicare numbers and identifiers without their knowledge or consent by paying kickbacks to co-conspirators. Naqvi tried to conceal his scheme by producing false records to investigators. Read a Department of Justice press release.

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