MIAMI, July 22 (Our Florida Times) — The FBI said Khalid Ahmed Satary, a defendant indicted in the Southern District of Florida in a $547 million Medicare fraud conspiracy case, was arrested overseas and brought back to the United States.
Satary is accused of taking part in a scheme that billed Medicare for expensive and medically unnecessary genetic tests from 2016 to 2019, according to the bureau. The FBI said the alleged fraud relied on deceptive marketing, illegal kickbacks and bribes.
Authorities said Satary violated the conditions of his pretrial release in 2022, and a federal arrest warrant followed. The FBI later placed him on its Most Wanted Fraudsters list and offered a reward of up to $150,000 for information leading to his arrest and conviction.
The bureau said the arrest happened with help from U.S. and international law-enforcement partners.
FBI Director Kash Patel said Satary’s arrest was the third capture from the bureau’s fraudster list in five weeks. “The arrest of Khalid Ahmed Satary and return to the U.S. is the third Most Wanted Fraudster capture from this FBI and our partners in just five weeks,” Patel said in a statement.
The FBI said the case is being handled by its Miami field office.
