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As the evangelist Luke would say in his new revelation, may the coffers of the federal medical programs Medicaid and Medicare, as well as private insurance companies, from which our healthcare scammers have been shoveling money for decades, not be impoverished. They are more or less regularly caught, accused, tried, fined and imprisoned, but they do not let up – this forbidden fruit is too sweet. let not the hand of the giver be impoverished. There are no more Russian speakers in them than the rest, but there are enough of them, and the last were 10 people who, as Damian Williams, federal prosecutor for the Southern District of New York in Manhattan, reported on October 20, were charged with fraud with these programs for at least $ 20 million over 5 years.
Of the ten accused, five are "ours": 47-year-old Roman Shamalov, 35-year-old Albert Yagudaev and 47-year-old Irina Polvanova from Queens; 47-year-old Boris Aminov from Brooklyn and 28-year-old Jonathan Gavrielov from the village of Woodmere on Long Island. Polvanova, Shamalov and Yagudaev were arrested on October 20, Gavrielov the day before, and Aminov even earlier on another charge, along with foreigners Kristi Corvalan, David Fernandez and Crystal Medina. Two others, Antonio Payano and Juan Hernandez, nicknamed "Papa", are still wanted. The charges against all of them face up to 20 years in prison, but until the court's decision, all are considered not guilty. The defendants, who were brought before Magistrates James Cott and Mary Kay Viscosil, were released on various bail conditions.
"It is alleged," Prosecutor Williams said in a press release, "that the defendants developed a system to enrich themselves by lying to Medicaid, Medicare, and private insurance companies, as well as by depriving AIDS patients of their legal and reliable medications. The defendant allegedly made millions of dollars in false accounts to insurance companies, illegal kickbacks and the purchase and sale of AIDS drugs on the black market". And, of course, with a mandatory warning to such scammers that they will not escape from legal retribution. The Manhattan prosecutor's indignation was shared by the head of the New York office of the FBI, James Smith, who clarified that "the defendants have been deceiving the health care system that exists on taxpayer money for more than half a decade," and "such black market drug scams hit vulnerable members of our society, exposing them to unnecessary risk." And, of course, the FBI did not tolerate this and will not tolerate it. Much the same was stated by Naomi Grushach, head of the investigative department of the Ministry of Health, who repeated that greedy fraudsters take away from AIDS patients what they need for treatment. It was in the Soviet past that they joked that "if an uncle sleeps with an uncle, then an uncle will have AIDS," and we take this very seriously, not seeing anything wrong with it.
Judging by the charges, the scam was simple, reliable, and most importantly, well-known. Polvanova (who is most likely Polivanova) and Yagudaev, along with four Spanish-speaking accomplices, found or recruited poor people with AIDS who needed money more than the drugs they were given free of charge under programs or private insurance. In the pharmacies of Aminov, Shamalov and Polvanova, these patients received their prescribed medicines free of charge, and then sold them to the same pharmacies for half the price, or even cheaper, for cash, and the pharmacists presented them with invoices for payment at full cost. Cheap drugs were sold all over the country through bank accounts of pharmacies and front companies of Boris Aminov. The defendants used their profits to live on a grand scale, in particular by buying a Mercedes-Benz Maybach 2021, which costs about $ 245,000, and real estate on an unspecified beach, including two houses in the Bronx with a total value of $ 2.4 million, as well as various small things, such as designer clothes and jewelry. Polvanova, Shamalov and Aminov face twenty years in prison for this, while Gavrielov and Yagudaev, as "sixes", face only five years in prison.
As already mentioned, in crime, the new is the old forgotten in vain. Less than three weeks later, in the same Manhattan federal court, 36-year-old Nerik Ilyaev and 44-year-old Mukhkhiddin Kadyrov, both from Queens, agreed to plead guilty. Judging by the preliminary indictment and other documents in the case, from February 2021 to March 2022, Ilyaev owned a pharmacy "Pharmacy-1"in Manhattan. Through it, Ilyaev sold, but did not give out to AIDS patients eligible for Medicare or Medicaid insurance, expensive medicines for this disease, which he ordered and received from unspecified, but illegal and known to the investigation sources. With patients who agreed to this in advance, he paid in cash on the cheap, and then on behalf of his pharmacy submitted invoices for these drugs to the Medicare and Medicaid programs, which eventually paid Ilyaev's pharmacy about $ 5.2 million. Kadyrov helped Ilyaev launder this money through three shell companies and laundered approximately $ 4.2 million. Then Prosecutor Damian Williams also said that the defendants "will pay for their crimes", and his prosecutor's office "will not stop prosecuting those who profit from the deception of our health care system."
Between the two cases, on October 10, the same U.S. Attorney's Office for the Southern District of New York in Manhattan reported that naturalized U.S. citizens Igor Palatnik, 47, and Vitaly Fergesen, 52, both from New Jersey, pleaded guilty to securities fraud by defrauding CanaFarma investors and confirmed this to Judge Loretta Preska. Both were arrested on October 5, 2021, and on October 7 of the same year, the online news outlet Forum-Daily reported that " two Russian-speaking immigrants were arrested in New Jersey." Both were released on bail and, after two years and three days of deliberation, agreed to receive up to 10 years in prison, but with the expectation of significant leniency. Judge Preska, 74, who was recommended by President George W. Bush in 1992, set Palatnik's sentence for January 11 and Fergesen's for January 30, 2024. And this case was from the well-known category of "insider trading", but with the difference that "insiders" dishonestly sold honest information, and these fooled investors ' heads. Prosecutor Williams said in a press release that Fergesen and Palatnik "devised a sophisticated scheme to extract millions of dollars from investors by promising that their money would be spent on creating a legitimate company," but that they " lied about their business, lied to auditors, and stole millions of dollars."
The preliminary indictment explained that the case involved a CanaFarma corporation registered in the state of Delaware with an office in Manhattan. From May 2019 to March 2020, the corporation listed its shares on the Toronto Stock Exchange (Canada), and from March 23, 2023, it appeared on the Frankfurt Stock Exchange (Germany). CanaFarma offered itself to investors as "a fully integrated cannabis company that deals with the entire spectrum of cannabis-from seeds to the delivery of consumer goods." For the benefit of the ignorant, cannabis, also known as marijuana and cannabis, is a product of the cannabis sativa plant, which is used for its psychoactive and therapeutic effects, that is, both for entertainment and for treatment. Again, for investors, Fergesen was listed as CanaFarma's senior vice president for strategic planning, and Palatnik as Senior Vice President for Procurement. In fact, they did manage the campaign, but they convinced an experienced and unnamed businessman who pretended to be the manager to do the investment work.
With his help, Palatnik and Fergesen convinced investors to invest about $ 14 million in of CanaFarma, which later changed its name to CanaFarma Hemp Products Corp, while telling them false information about who and how the company runs, what exactly it produces and how much money it exists on. The main product of the company was – or was considered for investors-chewing gum with an admixture of hemp oil. The case file shows that such investors, in particular, were living in Dubai (United Arab Emirates) Merdan Gurbanov, Mekan Gurbanov and Vitaly Spachevsky. The scammers did not place investors ' money as promised, while spending at least $ 4 million on themselves without their knowledge. According to the prosecution, and to which the defendants eventually agreed, they carried out their criminal plan by a) buying a Canadian dummy company through a fake buyer; (b) managing the reverse merger of a shell company and CanaFarma to exercise secret control over the resulting company; (c) control of CanaFarma through a figurehead who reports to them; (d) maintaining the price of CanaFarma's shares through market manipulation; (e) attempts to artificially inflate CanaFarma's reported earnings; and (f) making false statements to CanaFarma's auditors. The case notes that Fergesen and Palatnik have known each other for a long time and have been engaged in a common business for about 20 years., and when creating CanaFarma in April 2019, both owned shares worth $ 10 million each.
Of the ten accused, five are "ours": 47-year-old Roman Shamalov, 35-year-old Albert Yagudaev and 47-year-old Irina Polvanova from Queens; 47-year-old Boris Aminov from Brooklyn and 28-year-old Jonathan Gavrielov from the village of Woodmere on Long Island. Polvanova, Shamalov and Yagudaev were arrested on October 20, Gavrielov the day before, and Aminov even earlier on another charge, along with foreigners Kristi Corvalan, David Fernandez and Crystal Medina. Two others, Antonio Payano and Juan Hernandez, nicknamed "Papa", are still wanted. The charges against all of them face up to 20 years in prison, but until the court's decision, all are considered not guilty. The defendants, who were brought before Magistrates James Cott and Mary Kay Viscosil, were released on various bail conditions.
"It is alleged," Prosecutor Williams said in a press release, "that the defendants developed a system to enrich themselves by lying to Medicaid, Medicare, and private insurance companies, as well as by depriving AIDS patients of their legal and reliable medications. The defendant allegedly made millions of dollars in false accounts to insurance companies, illegal kickbacks and the purchase and sale of AIDS drugs on the black market". And, of course, with a mandatory warning to such scammers that they will not escape from legal retribution. The Manhattan prosecutor's indignation was shared by the head of the New York office of the FBI, James Smith, who clarified that "the defendants have been deceiving the health care system that exists on taxpayer money for more than half a decade," and "such black market drug scams hit vulnerable members of our society, exposing them to unnecessary risk." And, of course, the FBI did not tolerate this and will not tolerate it. Much the same was stated by Naomi Grushach, head of the investigative department of the Ministry of Health, who repeated that greedy fraudsters take away from AIDS patients what they need for treatment. It was in the Soviet past that they joked that "if an uncle sleeps with an uncle, then an uncle will have AIDS," and we take this very seriously, not seeing anything wrong with it.
Judging by the charges, the scam was simple, reliable, and most importantly, well-known. Polvanova (who is most likely Polivanova) and Yagudaev, along with four Spanish-speaking accomplices, found or recruited poor people with AIDS who needed money more than the drugs they were given free of charge under programs or private insurance. In the pharmacies of Aminov, Shamalov and Polvanova, these patients received their prescribed medicines free of charge, and then sold them to the same pharmacies for half the price, or even cheaper, for cash, and the pharmacists presented them with invoices for payment at full cost. Cheap drugs were sold all over the country through bank accounts of pharmacies and front companies of Boris Aminov. The defendants used their profits to live on a grand scale, in particular by buying a Mercedes-Benz Maybach 2021, which costs about $ 245,000, and real estate on an unspecified beach, including two houses in the Bronx with a total value of $ 2.4 million, as well as various small things, such as designer clothes and jewelry. Polvanova, Shamalov and Aminov face twenty years in prison for this, while Gavrielov and Yagudaev, as "sixes", face only five years in prison.
As already mentioned, in crime, the new is the old forgotten in vain. Less than three weeks later, in the same Manhattan federal court, 36-year-old Nerik Ilyaev and 44-year-old Mukhkhiddin Kadyrov, both from Queens, agreed to plead guilty. Judging by the preliminary indictment and other documents in the case, from February 2021 to March 2022, Ilyaev owned a pharmacy "Pharmacy-1"in Manhattan. Through it, Ilyaev sold, but did not give out to AIDS patients eligible for Medicare or Medicaid insurance, expensive medicines for this disease, which he ordered and received from unspecified, but illegal and known to the investigation sources. With patients who agreed to this in advance, he paid in cash on the cheap, and then on behalf of his pharmacy submitted invoices for these drugs to the Medicare and Medicaid programs, which eventually paid Ilyaev's pharmacy about $ 5.2 million. Kadyrov helped Ilyaev launder this money through three shell companies and laundered approximately $ 4.2 million. Then Prosecutor Damian Williams also said that the defendants "will pay for their crimes", and his prosecutor's office "will not stop prosecuting those who profit from the deception of our health care system."
Between the two cases, on October 10, the same U.S. Attorney's Office for the Southern District of New York in Manhattan reported that naturalized U.S. citizens Igor Palatnik, 47, and Vitaly Fergesen, 52, both from New Jersey, pleaded guilty to securities fraud by defrauding CanaFarma investors and confirmed this to Judge Loretta Preska. Both were arrested on October 5, 2021, and on October 7 of the same year, the online news outlet Forum-Daily reported that " two Russian-speaking immigrants were arrested in New Jersey." Both were released on bail and, after two years and three days of deliberation, agreed to receive up to 10 years in prison, but with the expectation of significant leniency. Judge Preska, 74, who was recommended by President George W. Bush in 1992, set Palatnik's sentence for January 11 and Fergesen's for January 30, 2024. And this case was from the well-known category of "insider trading", but with the difference that "insiders" dishonestly sold honest information, and these fooled investors ' heads. Prosecutor Williams said in a press release that Fergesen and Palatnik "devised a sophisticated scheme to extract millions of dollars from investors by promising that their money would be spent on creating a legitimate company," but that they " lied about their business, lied to auditors, and stole millions of dollars."
The preliminary indictment explained that the case involved a CanaFarma corporation registered in the state of Delaware with an office in Manhattan. From May 2019 to March 2020, the corporation listed its shares on the Toronto Stock Exchange (Canada), and from March 23, 2023, it appeared on the Frankfurt Stock Exchange (Germany). CanaFarma offered itself to investors as "a fully integrated cannabis company that deals with the entire spectrum of cannabis-from seeds to the delivery of consumer goods." For the benefit of the ignorant, cannabis, also known as marijuana and cannabis, is a product of the cannabis sativa plant, which is used for its psychoactive and therapeutic effects, that is, both for entertainment and for treatment. Again, for investors, Fergesen was listed as CanaFarma's senior vice president for strategic planning, and Palatnik as Senior Vice President for Procurement. In fact, they did manage the campaign, but they convinced an experienced and unnamed businessman who pretended to be the manager to do the investment work.
With his help, Palatnik and Fergesen convinced investors to invest about $ 14 million in of CanaFarma, which later changed its name to CanaFarma Hemp Products Corp, while telling them false information about who and how the company runs, what exactly it produces and how much money it exists on. The main product of the company was – or was considered for investors-chewing gum with an admixture of hemp oil. The case file shows that such investors, in particular, were living in Dubai (United Arab Emirates) Merdan Gurbanov, Mekan Gurbanov and Vitaly Spachevsky. The scammers did not place investors ' money as promised, while spending at least $ 4 million on themselves without their knowledge. According to the prosecution, and to which the defendants eventually agreed, they carried out their criminal plan by a) buying a Canadian dummy company through a fake buyer; (b) managing the reverse merger of a shell company and CanaFarma to exercise secret control over the resulting company; (c) control of CanaFarma through a figurehead who reports to them; (d) maintaining the price of CanaFarma's shares through market manipulation; (e) attempts to artificially inflate CanaFarma's reported earnings; and (f) making false statements to CanaFarma's auditors. The case notes that Fergesen and Palatnik have known each other for a long time and have been engaged in a common business for about 20 years., and when creating CanaFarma in April 2019, both owned shares worth $ 10 million each.
