Overview
- Serbian authorities arrested Ahmed on Nov. 30, 2025 under an Interpol Red Notice, and a court later ordered he remain in custody rather than be released to a Belgrade hotel.
- The United States has sent an extradition package to Serbia, and prosecutors indicated they may ask to delay a related trial to try defendants together if he is returned.
- Ahmed was indicted in 2024 on charges that he embezzled more than $15 million from Loretto Hospital through a phony billing scheme.
- In a separate case, prosecutors allege he used stolen patient data to submit about $894.5 million in bogus COVID-19 testing claims and collected over $293 million between April 2021 and June 2022.
- Ahmed resigned from Loretto in 2021 after pandemic vaccination controversies and later lived in Dubai; co-defendants include former CEO George Miller, who is cooperating and expected to plead guilty, and others who have pleaded not guilty.