A federal grand jury in Massachusetts charged an illegal immigrant with conspiracy for laundering $1.3 billion in an alleged international healthcare fraud scheme, prosecutors announced Sept. 4.
Erekle Gugava, 33, from the eastern European country of Georgia, is accused of laundering money for a Russian transnational criminal organization responsible for the largest healthcare fraud case ever prosecuted by the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ).
The DOJ uncovered the organization during Operation Gold Rush in 2025, resulting in criminal charges against 324 defendants allegedly involved in $14.6 billion in losses. Of those, 29 defendants were charged in connection to transnational criminal organizations, the DOJ reported in June….