FBI Director Kash Patel announced on Tuesday (June 23, 2026) that the agency had added two international fugitives to its recently launched “Most Wanted Fraudsters” list as part of a two-week healthcare fraud crackdown that officials say involved billions of dollars in false claims submitted to insurers. The move comes as the Justice Department announced a historic healthcare fraud crackdown on the same day, bringing criminal charges against 455 individuals accused of submitting more than $6.5 billion in fraudulent claims.During a joint news conference on the “2026 National Health Care Fraud Takedown” initiative, Patel announced the addition of two new names to the list: Khalid Ahmed Satary and Emylee Thai. Both fugitives have been evading authorities since 2022 and were added to the list as replacements for two fraud suspects who were previously captured.Satary is wanted for his alleged role in a massive healthcare fraud conspiracy involving a genetic testing scheme worth $547 million. According to the FBI, he is believed to be hiding in the United Arab Emirates.Thai has been charged with conspiracy to commit healthcare fraud, defrauding the United States, and both paying and receiving kickbacks. According to the FBI, Thai’s laboratory allegedly billed Medicare nearly $142 million for genetic testing and successfully collected around $95 million from those claims. Officials said Thai was previously fitted with an ankle monitor but later fled and is believed to possibly be hiding in Vietnam.Healthcare fraud has been a long-running Justice Department priority, and news conferences announcing roundups and crackdowns have been common occurrences across the years. The Trump administration appointed a new assistant attorney general, Colin McDonald, to help oversee healthcare fraud prosecutions at a Justice Department that operates multiple specialized task forces.Satary and Thai: What FBI has said about these ‘Most Wanted fraudsters’Khalid Ahmed SataryKhalid Ahmed Satary is wanted for his alleged involvement in a $547 million Health Care Fraud Conspiracy. Between 2016 and 2019, Satary owned and operated several diagnostic testing laboratories throughout the United States, which allegedly billed the Medicare Program for expensive and medically unnecessary genetic tests.Satary allegedly conspired with dozens of patient recruiters, telemarketing call centers, and telemedicine companies to utilize deceptive marketing campaigns and illegal kickbacks and bribes to generate cancer genetic test samples that were reimbursed between $10,000 to $20,000 per sample. Through his laboratories, Satary billed Medicare for over $547 million. He also allegedly paid millions of dollars of illegal kickbacks and bribes to doctors and patient recruiters.On September 26, 2019, Satary was indicted in the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Louisiana, New Orleans, Louisiana. He was arrested and charged with conspiracy to commit health care fraud and wire fraud, health care fraud, conspiracy to defraud the United States and to pay and receive illegal health care kickbacks and bribes, and conspiracy to launder monetary instruments.Satary was released on bond with conditions prohibiting him from working in the health care field. While on bond, Satary allegedly conspired with Houston-based laboratories in Texas to submit fraudulent genetic testing claims to Medicare. On November 23, 2022, a federal arrest warrant was issued for Satary in the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Louisiana, New Orleans, Louisiana, for pre-trial release violation.Emylee ThaiOn July 11, 2022, Emylee Thai was charged by indictment with conspiracy to commit health care fraud, conspiracy to defraud the United States and pay and receive health care kickbacks, and payment of kickbacks in connection with a federal health care program. The indictment alleges that beginning in or around 2019, Thai, a laboratory owner, contracted with marketers to refer signed doctors' orders and beneficiary DNA samples to the laboratory in exchange for a percentage of the reimbursements.Medicare often paid several thousand dollars for genetic testing that was unnecessary and rarely used in treatment. During this time, Thai's laboratory billed Medicare approximately $142 million for genetic testing and was paid approximately $95 million on those claims.Following her arrest, Thai was granted bail with several pre-trial conditions, including wearing a location-monitoring device to monitor her location. On December 8, 2022, Thai's location monitor was removed, and attempts to contact and locate her were unsuccessful.On December 9, 2022, a federal arrest warrant was issued for Thai in the United States District Court, Southern District of Texas, Houston, Texas, after she was charged with tampering with a GPS device. Investigation ultimately revealed that Thai was able to avoid law enforcement via a private airplane to Vietnam utilizing a false identity.On July 6, 2023, a separate federal arrest warrant was issued for Thai in the United States District Court, Southern District of Texas, Houston, Texas, after she was charged with destruction and alteration of records in a federal investigation.