New Delhi, Feb. 19 -- 'Collected a salary that began above $100,000; sent no emails,' - an Indian-origin executive in the US has been found guilty in a years-long fraud that cost a US-based company approximately $1.2 million by hiring his "lifelong friend" using a false resume, the US Attorney's Office, District of Minnesota, said in a release posted on Wednesday.

The accused - Karan Gupta - aged 47, worked as a Senior Director at Optum, a subsidiary of UnitedHealth Group.

He was found guilty after a six-day trial on multiple counts, including fraud and money laundering conspiracy, for hiring an unqualified friend for a position in which the friend did no work and paid half his unearned salary in kickbacks to Gupta, whose fraud totalled...