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Seven Indian-Americans Accused in 
135 Crore Medical Bribery Case in U.S.
Monday, 29 July 2013, 18:24 IST
New York: Eight people, including seven Indian-Americans, have been charged for their alleged involvement in a scheme in which over 2.3 million dollars (around 
135 crore) were paid in bribes and kickbacks to executives of a medical cost management company to secure business from it.Those who were charged with paying the bribes are Sarvesh Dharayan, Sanjay Gupta, Venkata Atluri, Rangarajan Kumar, Vadan Kumar Kopalle and Dareen Siriani. The defendants who were charged with receiving the bribes and kickbacks are Anil Singh and Keith Bush.
"Today's actions underscore our commitment to work with our law enforcement partners to bring to justice individuals who break the law out of greed," Preet Bharara, the U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York said after filing the charges.
Singh was the Senior Vice President and the Chief Information Officer at the New York Company, which provided nation-wide medical cost management solutions, including medical reimbursement services and Bush was employed as the company's Director of Database Administration.
Singh and Bush had considerable influence over the selection of vendors, specifically vendors of database administrators hired by the New York Company.
It has been alleged that from 2008 to September 2012, various individuals collectively paid over USD 2.3 million in money and other benefits to Singh and Bush to steer millions of dollars of the New York Company's DBA business to them.
Source: PTI
