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U.S. Seeks Four Suspects in $418.6M Medicare Fraud

9/8/2026

Summary

Story summary

U.S. authorities are hunting four Pakistani nationals for running a Medicare data-stealing call center.
The suspects—Fizza Farid, Faizan Saleem, Shearyar Arif, and Ruknuddin “Rick” Charolia—are in Pakistan or UAE.
They used Hello International Marketing Solutions to obtain Medicare IDs by hacking, scraping and fake websites.
$703,834,742 in false Medicare claims were filed, resulting in $418.6 million paid.
Pakistan’s intelligence agencies, including the Federal Investigation Agency, were ordered to prioritize the suspects’ arrest.

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Story summary

U.S. authorities are hunting four Pakistani nationals for running a Medicare data-stealing call center.
The suspects—Fizza Farid, Faizan Saleem, Shearyar Arif, and Ruknuddin “Rick” Charolia—are in Pakistan or UAE.
They used Hello International Marketing Solutions to obtain Medicare IDs by hacking, scraping and fake websites.
$703,834,742 in false Medicare claims were filed, resulting in $418.6 million paid.
Pakistan’s intelligence agencies, including the Federal Investigation Agency, were ordered to prioritize the suspects’ arrest.