Father-Son Owners Of LI Ambulette Company Admit To Defrauding IRS

The father-and-son owners of a ambulette company based in North Bellmore pleaded guilty today to conspiracy in relation to a decade-long scheme they were running to defraud the IRS.

Igor Radinovskiy, 60, and his son, Aleksandr Radinovskiy, 37, both of Brooklyn, pleaded guilty to one count of conspiracy to defraud the lawful functions of the IRS. The two were the co-owners of Sabe Ambulette Services, Inc., which did business as Moility Transportation. The company had offices in North Bellmore and Brooklyn.

“The Radinovskiys used their ambulette company as a vehicle to falsely bill Medicaid for transportation services performed by drivers who were not enrolled in the Medicaid program, in exchange for kickbacks from the defendants,” said United States Attorney Richard Donoghue. “With today’s guilty pleas, the defendants have been held accountable for this scheme that they carried out at the expense of the taxpayer-funded program.”

According to Donoghue, the Radinovskiys paid kickbacks to drivers for recruiting Medicaid beneficiaries for transport to clinics in Brooklyn and Queens, and referring those beneficiaries to the ambulette company. Those drivers were not enrolled in the Medicaid program, and were not authorized to bill Medicaid for the transportation.

The company, which was enrolled in Medicaid, billed the program for the drivers' services, kept 15 to 20 percent of the Medicaid reimbursements and gave the rest to the drivers. Between January 2008 and April 2018, the two paid more than $8.6 million in kickbacks.

From 2008 through 2013, the Radinovskiys filed false tax returns, claiming the kickbacks as legitimate business expenses, under-reported their income and claimed false deductions.

For the calendar years 2008 through 2013, the defendants filed false tax returns,
reporting the kickback payments as legitimate business expenses, under-reporting business
income and claiming false business deductions.