Guwahati, June 5: Assam’s Tonmoy Sharma, the founder and former CEO of the now-defunct addiction treatment provider Sovereign Health Group, has been arrested for allegedly submitting more than $149 million in fraudulent insurance claims between 2014 and 2020.
Sharma was arrested on May 29 at Los Angeles International Airport following an eight-count federal grand jury indictment.
A resident of Tustin, California, Sharma originally hails from Bamunimaidam in Guwahati. He is the eldest son of the late political leader Phani Sarma and the elder brother of Chinmoy Sharma, owner of Anuradha Cinema.
According to a statement released by the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Central District of California, the indictment alleges that Sharma orchestrated a wide-ranging healthcare fraud scheme. He is accused of submitting over $149 million in fraudulent claims to health insurers—including for unnecessary urinalysis tests—and of paying more than $21 million in illegal kickbacks for patient referrals.
From 2014 to 2020, Sovereign Health Group, based in San Clemente, operated across Southern California and several other states. During this period, the company aggressively pursued patients and frequently billed private insurance companies at elevated, out-of-network rates.
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