Overview
- An indictment charges Burhan Mirza and Kashif Iqbal with orchestrating false billings to Medicare and private insurers for services never provided.
- Prosecutors say the scheme ran in 2023–2024 through nominee-owned laboratories and durable medical equipment companies.
- Mirza allegedly operated from Pakistan using stolen identifiers of individuals, providers, and insurers to back bogus claims.
- Iqbal, who lived in Lavon, Texas, is accused of links to DME providers, laundering proceeds, and coordinating transfers to Pakistan.
- Counts include 12 health care fraud charges for each defendant, plus five money laundering counts for Mirza and six for Iqbal, who also faces one false‑statement charge; arraignments in Chicago have not yet been scheduled, and three co-schemers have already pleaded guilty and await sentencing.