Indictment — No. 4:24-cr-00466 (Dkt. 2, E.D. Mo.)

Summary

A grand jury indictment against Rashid Naqvi, Case 4:24-cr-00466-SRC-RHH, filed September 4, 2024 as Doc. 2 in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Missouri, Eastern Division. Count One charges conspiracy under 18 U.S.C. § 371 to commit wire fraud and to pay kickbacks; the forfeiture allegation refers to wire fraud in Counts Two through Five, and a further count cites 18 U.S.C. §§ 1516 and 2 over records given to a Medicare auditor. The indictment alleges that Naqvi, owner of Elite Diagnostics and Astro Diagnostics, paid kickbacks totaling $488,435.00 for Medicare patient identifiers and billed Medicare approximately 22,898 times for COVID-19 test kits the patients had not requested. It alleges he sought $4,579,850.00 and Medicare paid $1,974,479.00. The signature block names United States Attorney Sayler A. Fleming.

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