CLEVELAND, Ohio (WOIO) – On Friday, The United States Department of Justice announced a man from Cleveland pleading guilty to laundering approximately $3.4 million in illicit health care fraud money for a transnational criminal organization (Organization).
Eldar Zarbavel, 45-year-old of Pepper Pike, Ohio, was a money launderer for the foreign Organization that led the largest health care fraud case through the Department of Justice, according to court records.
The Department of Justice says the Organization, based in Russia and other countries, created a health care fraud and money laundering scheme worth billions to exploit and steal from Medicare and private health insurance companies…