Indian-origin CFO jailed in United States bribery case

An Indian-origin chief financial officer of a spinal implant company was sentenced to a four-month jail term by a US federal court for bribing surgeons to use the company’s products in exchange for sham consulting fees, authorities said.

After his jail term, Cambridge resident Aditya Humad, 41, will have one year of supervised release and pay a USD 9,500 fine.

He previously pleaded guilty to one count of conspiracy to violate the anti-kickback statute.

Humad was charged in September 2021 along with Kingsley R. Chin, SpineFrontier’s Founder, President and



CEO.

Humad conspired to pay and direct the payment of over USD 540,000 in bribes to surgeons in the form of sham consulting fees for work they did not perform, the US Attorney’s Office, District of Massachusetts, said in a statement on Monday.

Humad conspired to bribe surgeons to use SpineFrontier’s products, and in turn, the company received millions of dollars in revenue from surgeries the surgeons performed.

“This sentence is the culmination of years of dogged pursuit of SpineFrontier, its executives, Aditya Humad and Kingsley Chin, and multiple bribe-taking doctors,” said United States Attorney Leah B Foley.