73 suspected Armenian mafia membres arrested for financial fraud, A criminal group led by "thief in the law" "Vori v Zakone" Armen Kazarian, David Mirzoyan and Robert Terdjanian is accused in 3 million fraud case APA. A vast network of Armenian gangsters led by "thief in the law" Armen Kazarian was rendered harmless in the United States. According to APA, a group of immigrants from former USSR used phantom health care clinics and other means to try to cheat Medicare out of 3 million, the largest fraud by one criminal enterprise in the program's history, US authorities said Wednesday. Armenian crime boss Armen Kazarian, 45 was arrested and the court refused to release him on bail. Federal prosecutors in New York and elsewhere charged 73 people. Most of the defendants were captured during raids Wednesday morning in New York City and Los Angeles, but there also were arrests in New Mexico, Georgia and Ohio. The defendants in the New York case also had stolen the identities of doctors and set up 118 phantom clinics in 25 states, authorities said. The names were used to submit fake bills for care that was never given. "The whole doctor-patient interaction was a mirage." Kazarian, 40, of Glendale, Calif., and two alleged ringleaders — Davit Mirzoyan, 34, also of Glendale, and Robert Terdjanian, 35, of Brooklyn — were named in an indictment unsealed in Manhattan. Most of the defendants were to appear in court later Wednesday on charges including racketeering conspiracy ...
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