Hasan “Lucas” Seyhun, 45, of Miami, Florida, the chief operating officer of Fast Lab Technologies, LLC, has pleaded guilty to conspiracy to commit health care fraud, the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of Michigan announced on September 24, 2026. As part of the plea he agreed to a forfeiture money judgment of $4,313,153, which the office describes as the amount of money he personally received from the scheme. No sentence has been imposed, and the announcement gives no sentencing date.
That sum is small beside the rest of the case. The same announcement says Fast Lab submitted more than $500 million in fraudulent COVID-19 test claims to government health care programs, and it ties at least $35 million in illicit payments to claims Seyhun orchestrated. Three different dollar figures describe three different stages of the money, and the gap between them is the real subject of the plea.
A claim, a payment and a personal take are not the same dollar
The U.S. Attorney’s release sorts the money into three buckets. The first is what was billed: more than $500 million in claims the office calls fraudulent. The second is what was actually paid out as a result of the claims Seyhun orchestrated: at least $35 million. The third is what reached him personally: $4,313,153.
Simple division shows how the buckets relate. The forfeiture equals roughly 12 percent of the $35 million in payments and less than 1 percent of the $500 million in claims. Those ratios are The Financial Wire’s arithmetic, not a statement by prosecutors, and they should not be read as a split of proceeds. A claim is only a request for payment, and the release does not explain why the paid figure is so much lower than the billed one. The release does not say how the remaining payments were divided among the other people and companies involved.
What a forfeiture money judgment does, and what it does not promise
A forfeiture money judgment is a court order for a dollar amount rather than for a particular house or bank account. Because it is a sum, it can be collected from whatever property the defendant holds, now or later, up to that figure. In this case the amount was set by what the government says Seyhun personally received, not by the size of the scheme.
The announcement does not say where forfeited money will go once collected, and it does not say that any victim, program or beneficiary will be repaid from it. Nor does it say that Seyhun has already paid any of the $4,313,153. It reports an agreed judgment tied to a guilty plea, and the amount becomes final only when the court enters it at sentencing or before.
Tests that, according to the government, were never performed
The scheme described in the release centered on billing for services that did not happen. Fast Lab, it says, billed for antigen tests, saliva collection and PCR testing that were never actually provided. Seyhun’s title as chief operating officer is the link to the claims: the office says the payments it attributes to him flowed from claims he orchestrated.
U.S. Attorney Jerome F. Gorgon Jr. framed the case as a double offense against the public. “Ripping off the American taxpayer is bad enough,” he said in the release. “Using the fear and isolation of the COVID pandemic to do it is sickening.” The remark points to the funding side of the story. Government health care programs are paid for with public money, and the same programs support coverage for older beneficiaries, so billing for tests that were never performed draws on a shared pool. The release refers to government health care programs in general and, in the text reviewed here, does not break the $500 million down by program, so the effect on any single one is not stated.
Two executives remain at the charging stage
Seyhun is not the only person named in the matter. The release says Cemhan “Jimmy” Biricik, identified as the company’s chief executive, and Dr. Martin Perlin, identified as its medical director, were previously charged. A charge is an allegation, and the announcement of Seyhun’s plea does not report a plea, verdict or sentence for either man. His admission covers his own conduct and does not decide any question about theirs.
The prosecution is also not the work of one office. The release lists the FBI, the Health and Human Services Office of Inspector General, the Office of Personnel Management Office of Inspector General, IRS Criminal Investigation, the Defense Criminal Investigative Service, the U.S. Postal Inspection Service and the Michigan Attorney General’s Medicaid Fraud Control Unit as investigating agencies, with Assistant U.S. Attorneys Regina R. McCullough and Ryan A. Particka handling the prosecution. IRS Criminal Investigation’s press release index separately lists the item under September 24, 2026, matching the date on the Justice Department page.
The figure the court will have to confirm
The next recorded step is sentencing, for which the release names no date. Until then, the only dollar figure the government has tied to Seyhun’s own pocket is the $4,313,153 he agreed to forfeit, set against more than $500 million in claims and at least $35 million in payments the same Eastern District of Michigan announcement attributes to the scheme.
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Warren Cohen is a finance writer based in Phoenix, Arizona, covering personal finance topics including credit, banking, and beginner investing. He earned his degree in business administration from Arizona State University and began his career working in consumer finance, where he gained direct experience with lending and credit systems. He now writes for personal finance websites and fintech platforms, focusing on clear, practical content that helps readers make informed financial decisions.
