Russian citizens, suspects in Medicare fraud, Igor Shevchuk and Arsen Bejanyan, Armenian by origin, received $5,000 each for using their personal data to open a bank account with forged documents.

They agreed to participate in the opening of several bank accounts, transferring personal data to man, appearing in the documents as “Garik”, RIA Novosti reports referring to RAPS / infosud.ru.

The documents say he offered to open account with false documents, paying each of them $5,000. In May 2011 they got another $400 for signing a paper after some inaccuracy was discovered.

At least five fictitious companies - ASC Solutions Corp., Attens Reliable Inc., KB Support Group Inc., Mega Plus Solutions Corp. and Powersource Support Inc. were registered to receive health insurance benefits. These companies have filed applications for medical insurance totaling about $3 million.