Norwalk doctor busted in Canada

The office of Family Health Urgent Care in the plaza at 235 Main Ave. on Thursday July 13, 2017 in Norwalk Conn. The office of Family Health Urgent Care in the plaza at 235 Main Ave. on Thursday July 13, 2017 in Norwalk Conn. Photo: Alex Von Kleydorff / Hearst Connecticut Media Photo: Alex Von Kleydorff / Hearst Connecticut Media Image 1 of / 5 Caption Close Norwalk doctor busted in Canada 1 / 5 Back to Gallery

NORWALK— A local doctor implicated in last week’s crackdown on over-prescribing narcotic pain killers and defrauding health care insurers has been arrested in Canada.

Ramil Mansourov, 47, of Tokeneke Road, Darien, was arrested just hours after federal authorities here issued an alert that he may have fled to Canada.

Canadian Border Service agents arrested Mansourov outside a hotel at the Pierre-Elliott-Trudeau International Airport in Montreal. He is charged in Canada with violating the Immigration and Refugee Protection Act.

The charge determines that a foreign national is not allowed into Canada when charged with a criminal act in another country that if committed in Canada would carry a maximum 10-year prison term, said Dominique McNeely, a spokesman for Canada’s Border Service Agency. McNeely said Mansourov appeared before Canada’s Immigration and Refugee Board Monday and the case was continued for a week.

Last week federal authorities charged Mansourov and an associate, Dr. Bharat Patel,70, of Milford, who practice at Family Health Urgent Care in Norwalk, with conspiring to distribute and possess narcotics, health care fraud and conspiring to commit money laundering.

Patel is being detained without bond pending a hearing Wednesday before U.S. Magistrate Judge William I. Garfinkel in Bridgeport.

Their arrests were part of a nationwide crackdown on over-prescribing narcotic pain killers and health care fraud. Charges were brought against 115 doctors, nursers and medical professionals in which $1.3 in false billings were alleged.