February 26, 2020

The two owners and operators of Royal Care Pharmacy in Los Angeles have been ordered to pay restitution of $11.8 million to Medicare and $17,000 to Cigna after being found guilty of healthcare fraud and money laundering.  Aleksandr Suri and Maxim Sverdlov were also sentenced to 12 years in prison.  From 2012 to 2015, the two had fraudulently billed Medicare and Cigna for prescription medications that were not purchased or dispensed to beneficiaries, hiding the conspiracy and laundering the proceeds through fake invoices.  DOJ

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