Wednesday, August 30, 2017

The Russian Mafia Story

Last night, I sat and watched the German news unfold with a rather new story.

What the cops say, with the prosecutor running this into the Dusseldorf regional court....is that the Russian mafia somehow got into the nursing care business.

It started off with fraud...of sorts.

Roughly ten folks are part of the insider crew to a nursing operations that ran for three years (until 2016).  They provided billing for non-care services.  Maybe up to the two million Euro level.

The charges also include money-laundering.  These guys were raking in various forms of cash....cleaning it for different gangs, and actually acting like a legit nurse operation.

Also in the mix....at least four doctors, who were writing the 'scripts' to allow the services to be legit.

The court episode?  No one expects it to wrap up in 2017....it'll go till at least January of 2018.

But I would imagine that the cops are reviewing other operations around Germany now, and you might see five or six operations discovered like this....Russian mafia into German nursing operations.

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