UK to extradite PIO bizman to US for cancer drugs fraud

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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.

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.

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