Damian Williams, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced that Boris Aminov pleaded guilty to conspiracy to commit healthcare fraud in connection with engaging in a years-long scheme to defraud Medicaid, Medicare, and private insurance companies out of at least $20 million. 10 other defendants were charged in connection with the scheme in two separate indictments unsealed in March and October 2023. According to the allegations contained in the Superseding Indictments and statements made in court proceedings: From at least in or about 2017 through at least in or about 2023, Aminov and others engaged in a scheme that defrauded Medicaid, Medicare, and private insurance companies out of at least approximately $20 million through trafficking in black-market HIV medication. In doing so, they exploited at least hundreds of low-income individuals who had been prescribed HIV medication, jeopardizing the health and safety of those vulnerable patients.
Aminov distributed black-market HIV medications to pharmacies that were owned and operated by other co-conspirators. That medication was then dispensed to unknowing patients who believed they were receiving legitimate medication. To further their scheme and conceal their proceeds, co-conspirators used bank accounts associated with their respective pharmacies to funnel money to shell companies controlled by Aminov.
