Olatunbosun Osukoya, a Nigerian has been indicted by the United States along with 323 others, over alleged healthcare fraud schemes linked to at least $14 billion.
In a statement released Thursday via the DOJ website, the suspects include doctors, pharmacists, nurses, and other licensed medical professionals accused of exploiting patients and taxpayers.
“The Justice Department today announced the results of its 2025 National Health Care Fraud Takedown, which resulted in criminal charges against 324 defendants, including 96 doctors, nurse practitioners, pharmacists, and other licensed medical professionals, in 50 federal districts and 12 State Attorneys General’s Offices across the United States, for their alleged participation in various health care fraud schemes involving over $14.6bn in intended loss.”
Highlighting Osukoya’s alleged role, the statement said the 67-year-old, as owner of a diagnostic centre, submitted over $25 million in fraudulent medical claims to insurers.
It alleged that Osukoya targeted insured individuals for costly lab testing and paid bribes to medical professionals to refer patients to his facility.
“Olatunbosun Osukoya, 67, of Plano, Texas, was charged by indictment with conspiracy to commit health care fraud in connection with the submission of over $25 million in false and fraudulent medical claims to Medicare, TRICARE, and other insurers for electroencephalogram testing.
“As alleged in the indictment, Olatunbosun Osukoya, the owner of Ayo Biometrics, LLC d/b/a Cambridge Diagnostics, sought out individuals with insurance plans to undergo expensive EEG testing and recruited and paid kickbacks and bribes to physicians and others to refer patients to Cambridge Diagnostics.”
The DOJ further stated that to conceal the scheme and give it a semblance of legitimacy, the accused and his co-conspirators falsified diagnoses and disguised illegal payments as legitimate transactions.
“To conceal the scheme and to make it appear that the services were necessary, Osukoya and his co-conspirators allegedly falsified diagnoses and falsely labelled kickback payments as loans, medical directorships, and consultation fees, among other things.”
According to the statement, Osukoya received over $5 million from the fraudulent claims and paid out more than $450,000 in kickbacks.
“Osukoya, through Cambridge Diagnostics, was paid over $5 million for the claims and is alleged to have paid out over $450,000 in illegal kickbacks,” it added.
In a related case, Newton Ofioritse Jemide, a France-based Nigerian extradited to the US over an $8 million disaster fraud, was sentenced to three years and five months in prison.
Jemide, 47, was found guilty of fraudulently obtaining federal grants meant for vulnerable Americans and was sentenced Tuesday by Judge Deborah K. Chasanow of a US District Court.
