FBI adds 2 fugitives to 'Most Wanted Fraudsters' list amid historic $6.5B healthcare takedown: Patel

FBI Director Kash Patel announced Tuesday the bureau is adding 2 planetary fugitives to its precocious launched "Most Wanted Fraudsters" list, arsenic national authorities unveiled a historical crackdown connected healthcare fraud that led to charges against 455 suspects for much than $6.5 cardinal successful mendacious claims.

Patel revealed the 2 caller additions, Khalid Ahmed Satary and Emylee Thai, during a associated quality league detailing the "2026 National Health Care Fraud Takedown" initiative.

The pair, who person some been connected the tally since 2022, were added to regenerate 2 antecedently captured fraudsters.

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Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) Director Kash Patel (C) speaks astatine a quality league astatine the astatine the Robert F. Kennedy Department of Justice gathering connected June 23, 2026 successful Washington, DC. Department of Justice and Health and Human Service officials held the quality league to sermon caller crackdowns against fraud pertaining to healthcare. (Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images)

The caller "most wanted" targets see Khalid Ahmed Satary, who is wanted for his alleged engagement successful a staggering $547 cardinal healthcare fraud conspiracy tied to a familial investigating scheme. 

The FBI said Satary is believed to beryllium hiding successful the United Arab Emirates.

The 2nd wanted suspect, Emylee Thai, faces charges for conspiracy to perpetrate healthcare fraud, defrauding the U.S., and paying and receiving kickbacks.

Khalid Ahmed Satary is wanted for his alleged engagement successful a $547 cardinal healthcare fraud conspiracy. (@FBIDirectorKash via X)

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Thai’s laboratory allegedly billed Medicare astir $142 cardinal for familial testing, successfully pocketing astir $95 cardinal connected those claims, according to the FBI. 

Officials said Thai had antecedently been wearing an ankle show but fled, and whitethorn beryllium hiding successful Vietnam.

"The American radical and the satellite are our champion sources of information," Patel said, urging anyone with tips regarding Satary oregon Thai to sojourn tips.fbi.gov oregon telephone 1-800-CALL-FBI.

Emylee Thai is charged with conspiracy to perpetrate healthcare fraud, conspiracy to defraud the U.S. and wage and person wellness attraction kickbacks, and outgo of kickbacks successful transportation with a national healthcare program. (@FBIDirectorKash via X)

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The additions to the astir wanted database travel amid what Attorney General Todd Blanche described Tuesday arsenic "the top combined national and authorities effort successful combating wellness attraction fraud successful history."

The whole-of-government operation, executed implicit the past 14 days, spanned 45 states and territories. 

Blanche elaborate however suspects allegedly utilized stolen payer wealth to bankroll lavish lifestyles, including multimillion-dollar homes, a $135,000 Maserati, a $865,000 Bulgari necklace, and the operation of a $4.6 cardinal edifice astatine a formation edifice successful the Philippines.

FBI Director Kash Patel speaks during a property league announcing yearly healthcare fraud takedown results astatine the Department of Justice successful Washington, DC connected June 23, 2026. (Ken Cedeno/AFP via Getty Images)

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"Fraudsters tin nary longer rip disconnected American taxpayers," Blanche said. "If you question to harm oregon cheat Americans, we volition find you, prehend immoderate assets and prosecute you to the fullest grade of the law."

The broader takedown represents a large violative by the Trump medication to aggressively basal retired corruption successful Medicare and Medicaid.

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Key figures, including Department of Health and Human Services Sec. Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services Administrator Dr. Mehmet Oz, emphasized the coordinated interagency effort is ending aged "pay and chase" policies. 

Instead of allowing criminals to bargain funds and attempting to claw them backmost later, the medication is present utilizing precocious information analytics and artificial quality to observe and artifact fraudulent claims earlier the wealth ever leaves the Treasury.