CUBA DENIES INVOLVEMENT IN MEDICARE SCANDAL
A Cuban official said June 27 that her country has strict controls to avoid money laundering and works closely with banks to detect and deter fraudulent transactions, in response to allegations by U.S. prosecutors that millions of dollars defrauded from Medicare were routed to the island’s financial system.
The statement from Johana Tablada, deputy director for U.S. affairs at the Cuban Foreign Ministry, came in response to a request from The Associated Press after a Cuban-American man in South Florida was ordered held in the case.
“Foreign commercial banks that maintain accounts in Cuban banks are obliged to operate in strict compliance with international and Cuban rules and must guarantee the reliability of their transactions and the correct use of their accounts,” read the statement emailed to AP.
Tablada did not directly address whether any money from the alleged Medicare scam has actually been deposited in Cuban banks.
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