MEMPHIS, Tenn. (WMC/GrayNews) – A doctor in Tennessee has been indicted on multiple federal charges stemming from an ongoing investigation.
The FBI carried out a court-ordered search warrant last April at an east Memphis women’s clinic.
This week, a federal 23-count indictment became unsealed, accusing Dr. Sanjeev Kumar of coercing at least four women to travel to Memphis to perform illegal sex acts between September 2019 and June 2024.
It also accuses him of conducting unnecessary medical procedures, reusing disposable medical devices, not sterilizing equipment and falsely billing insurance programs like Medicare and Medicaid.
Dr. Kumar operates the Women’s Health and Med Spa on Poplar Avenue.
“This doctor put profit ahead of patients,” said FBI Special Agent Joseph E. Carrico. “The abusive behavior alleged here took place over five years, which means there could be many victims.”
On April 16, 2024, the FBI raided the clinic in search of evidence relating to the indictment.
A federal grand jury alleges that Kumar and his staff did not properly clean, sanitize and/or sterilize tools that are used to examine patients’ uteruses for years.
The document explained that the devices “routinely contacted human tissue, discharge, and blood.”
The East Memphis doctor is facing a penalty of serving multiple years in prison and a $250,000 fine.
The FBI said if anyone has further information on this case or if they think they were a victim, its office can be contacted.
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