An Indian-American doctor has been arrested and indicted on charges of healthcare fraud and causing serious bodily injury to his patients.
Kamal Tiwari, 58, a medical doctor practising in Bloomington, Indianapolis, was arrested on Thursday and was scheduled to appear before a US magistrate judge in Indianapolis.
He has been indicted by a federal grand jury with health care fraud, fraud resulting in serious bodily injury and 11 counts of unlawful drug distribution.
Tiwari also defrauded healthcare benefit programmes, including Medicare and Indiana Medicaid.
The indictment alleges that from 2002 through 2007, Tiwari was paid approximately $21,617,687 by these healthcare benefit programmes alone.
According to the indictment, Tiwari allegedly asked patients to undergo medically unnecessary injection procedures.
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Ex-top cop jailed over G-8 violence
Genoa (Italy), : An Italian court has sentenced the country’s former police chief Gianni De Gennaro to two years in prison for trying to cover up brutal police assaults of protesters at the G-8, in the northern city of Genoa in 2001. De Gennaro, who was the national police chief between 2000 and 2007, had previously been acquitted last November, but Genoa’s court of appeal upheld a challenge to that ruling by the public prosecutor’s office. De Gennaro was involved in pressuring Genoa’s head of police to change his testimony in a trial against officers for violence against protesters, the appeals judges said. The officers were involved in a notorious night raid at a school in which three people were left in a coma.
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