UK to extradite PIO bizman to US for cancer drugs fraud

London: A British judge has ordered the extradition of wealthy British Indian businessman Sukhjit Singh Ghuman to the US to face charges of smuggling foreign unapproved medical drugs from India, Sri Lanka and Turkey into the US as well as fraudulently obtaining millions of dollars from US health insurance plans, including Medicare.The allegations are that Sukhjit Singh Ghuman (48) and his former wife Kiranjit Ghuman (48) obtained cheap, unapproved chemotherapy drugs from overseas and used them on cancer patients at oncology clinics they controlled in California and Arizona. They then caused the clinics to bill Medicare and other health insurance providers as though more costly drugs approved by the US FDA had been given to the cancer patient, pocketing the difference for financial gain. The couple fraudulently billed Medicare for over $9.6 million.District judge Nina Tempia did not agree that Kiranjit's involvement in the alleged fraud "was limited", pointing out that Kiranjit controlled the clinics in Arizona and California as senior vice-president of Colton Health, LLC and she "played an active role in the clinics". But she discharged her, saying: "I am of the view that this is one of those exceptional cases where family life outweighs the public interest in extradition."You use AI every day. Now get your AI Quotient. Take the AIQ test.