Georgian Citizen Jailed for Laundering Healthcare Fraud Proceeds

A Georgian citizen has been sentenced to 37 months in prison for laundering more than $1.1 million in proceeds from a large-scale healthcare fraud scheme targeting Medicare and private insurers.

Irakli Nakashidze, 35, a Georgian national residing in Miami, Florida, owned ABRH Care Inc (ABRH), which presented itself as a medical supply company but operated as a sham entity used to defraud Medicare. Court documents reveal that in the first six months of 2025 alone, ABRH billed Medicare and private insurers approximately $179 million for medical supplies, including orthotic braces and wound dressings, that were never delivered to patients.

The fraudulent billing formed part of an operation orchestrated by a transnational criminal organisation. Nakashidze laundered over $1.1 million in illicit proceeds to co-conspirators based overseas, with substantial transfers routed to accounts in China and Hong Kong. Bank surveillance footage captured him conducting the laundering activity on multiple occasions.

Nakashidze pleaded guilty to conspiracy to commit money laundering in November 2025 and has been ordered to pay $1,108,504 in forfeiture alongside his custodial sentence.

The case was investigated by the Department of Health and Human Services Office of the Inspector General (HHS-OIG), the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), and the US Office of Personnel Management Office of the Inspector General (OPM-OIG), with additional assistance from Homeland Security Investigations, US Citizenship and Immigration Services Fraud Detection and National Security Directorate, and the US Marshals Service. The prosecution was led by the Criminal Division's Fraud Section as part of the wider Health Care Fraud Strike Force Programme, which has charged more than 6,200 defendants since 2007 in connection with fraudulent billing exceeding $45 billion.

The sentencing underscores the increasingly international dimension of healthcare fraud and the role of money laundering networks in moving illicit proceeds across borders.

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