{"id":5067,"date":"2025-09-15T10:00:00","date_gmt":"2025-09-15T15:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.cchrstl.org\/wordpress\/?p=5067"},"modified":"2025-09-11T10:45:59","modified_gmt":"2025-09-11T15:45:59","slug":"st-louis-area-psychiatrists-sentenced-for-health-crimes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cchrstl.org\/wordpress\/2025\/09\/15\/st-louis-area-psychiatrists-sentenced-for-health-crimes\/","title":{"rendered":"St. Louis Area Psychiatrists Sentenced for Health Crimes"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>In 2005 an investigation of the Malik family of psychiatrists in the Greater St. Louis Metropolitan area revealed that they were the top <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cchrstl.org\/wordpress\/2025\/06\/09\/st-louis-area-psychiatrist-committing-health-crimes\/\">fraud violators<\/a> of the psychiatric profession in the St. Louis area.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Dr. Mohd Azfar Malik, 71, pleaded guilty in April 2025 to making false statements related to health care matters.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Dr. Asim Muhammad Ali, 54, an internal medical specialist working for Malik, also pleaded guilty to illegally distributing controlled substances (ketamine) and several other crimes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>They have now both been&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/fox2now.com\/news\/missouri\/two-st-louis-area-doctors-sentenced-for-federal-health-care-crimes\/\">sentenced<\/a>&nbsp;for their crimes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Malik was sentenced in August 2025 to five years of probation, fined $20,000, and ordered to pay $19,442 in restitution.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Ali was sentenced in September 2025 to 70 months in prison and ordered to pay $1,846,818.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>If you know someone who has been abused by psychiatry, encourage them to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cchr.org\/take-action\/report-psychiatric-abuse.html\">file a complaint here.<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Help us investigate and expose psychiatric violations of human rights. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.paypal.com\/donate\/?hosted_button_id=4VZX2QHHBZ9WE\">Make a tax deductible donation to CCHR St. Louis.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>St. Louis Area Psychiatrists Sentenced for Health Crimes <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cchrstl.org\/wordpress\/2025\/09\/15\/st-louis-area-psychiatrists-sentenced-for-health-crimes\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"St. Louis Area Psychiatrists Sentenced for Health Crimes","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[2],"tags":[28,59],"class_list":["post-5067","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-big-muddy-river-newsletter","tag-fraud","tag-missouri"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6NMpC-1jJ","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cchrstl.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5067","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cchrstl.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cchrstl.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cchrstl.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cchrstl.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5067"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.cchrstl.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5067\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cchrstl.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5067"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cchrstl.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5067"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cchrstl.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5067"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}