Fugitive Profile: Nuritsa GRIGORYAN

Nuritsa GRIGORYAN

Also Known As:

“Nora” GRIGORYAN

Date and Place of Birth:

7 February 1955 — Yerevan, Armenia

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Summary of OCI Investigation:

Nuritsa GRIGORYAN was an unlicensed medical practitioner and wrote bogus prescriptions using an American doctor’s name and license number, and had close relationships with pharmacies and a fraudulent drug wholesale company that were used to funnel prescription drugs back to the pharmacies participating in the scheme. GRIGORYAN generated thousands of prescriptions for identify theft victims, such as elderly beneficiaries of Medicare or Medicaid, military veterans who were also recruited from drug rehabilitation programs, and the homeless. Members of the conspiracy created or doctored patient files to make it falsely appear the drugs were necessary and the patients were legitimately treated. After the prescriptions were filled at pharmacies and paid for by Medicare and Medicaid, they were sold on the black market and redistributed to pharmacies, where the drugs would be subject to new claims made to Medicare and Medicaid as though they were new bottles of drugs.

GRIGORYAN was convicted, via jury trial, on February 18, 2014 of five felonies relating to the adulteration of the pharmaceuticals. She was scheduled to be sentenced in June 2014 and was facing 35 years’ incarceration. On February 24, 2014, GRIGORYAN unlawfully removed her court ordered ankle bracelet and fled. GRIGORYAN obtained another Armenian passport from the Armenian Consulate in Glendale, CA.