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.