In the case of Russian fraud in Florida, arrested hockey player millionaire

Earlier this week, the Florida State Police uncovered a corruption scheme created by Russian emigrants. Among the frauds with benefits for the poor, among others, the famous hockey player Sergei Berezin was implicated. He is already arrested. Dozens of people under investigation.

The main organizer in this case is Irma Davidyan - a very famous person among the Russians in Florida.

According to the materials of the investigation, which leads the site of the Florida newspaper Sun sentinel, she gave in print ads that for two to five thousand dollars will be able to receive privileges and benefits from the state for their clients, even if they are not laid down by law.

Until recently, advertising her company American Advisory Associates It was in every Russian-language newspaper, with something like this: “Few people know what opportunities the US legislation provides, we will help you get free services, benefits and other help. Call now!".

This is the service that Sergey Berezin and his wife Lyudmila Ustakova used, people are not poor.

43-year-old Berezin is now an agent for the Montreal Canadiens defender Andrei Markov.

He owns a home in Boca Raton worth one million dollars.

Sergey told an undercover agent that his income from training and renting real estate is about 100 thousand dollars. The amount of fraud Sergei with the allowance and insurance for low-income Medicaid cost the state 67 thousand dollars for three years, the newspaper writes WPBF.

The Forum editors personally had the opportunity to communicate with Irma Davidyan a month ago, when we began preparing an investigation into how Russian-speaking tourists manage to give birth in America for free.

One of the heroes of the article told us about Irma, for whom she helped “cancel” a hospital bill of one hundred thousand dollars for a difficult birth with complications. Irma then took five thousand dollars for her services.

As the heroes of the article explained to the editors, Irma acted through “her” person in the Department of Health and Family Services, who retroactively issued the mother with “Emergency Medicaid” - health insurance paid for by the state.

The Forum appealed to the Department of Health and Family to find out if they knew about American Advisory Associates and whether they were working with it legally.

Michelle Glady, a spokeswoman for the Department of Health and Family, sent list of partners in all states. Irma Davidyan's company was not there.

It turns out that Irma had “his” people not only in the Department of Health and Family, but also in the Social Security Administration. For two years they claimed for money applications for benefits and insurance for the poor for Davidyan's clients.

For all the time Irma has earned more than five million dollars, calculated in Sun ventinal. If she is found guilty, she faces ten years in prison and a fine of five hundred thousand dollars.

Investigators said that her accomplices - Gladys Roman, Jorja Lopez, Maria Sanchez, Alejandro Lomoso - could also receive five years in prison and a $250 fine each if they are found guilty.

Also, another six people are accused of fraud with Medicaid insurance: Alexey Mesyatsev (Wellington); Ilya Massarsky and Olga Maksimova (both from Sunny Isles Beach); Natalia Krichevskaya from Fort Lauderdale; Lyudmila Pereverzeva from Chalandale Beach; Marina Hanueva from Boca Raton.

According to unofficial data, dozens of Russian-speaking Irma clients are under investigation.

This is not the first time that non-poor Russians are under investigation for frauds with American insurances for the poor.

So, in 2013, Russian diplomats were convicted of systematically filing false claims for insurance for low-income Medicaid.

For nine years, the state paid the expenses for pregnancy, childbirth and medical care for children of diplomats. During this time, 62 had time to be born in New York.

This fraud brought a loss to the state in more than half a million dollars.

Of the defendants in the 49 case of fraud, eleven remained in their positions to work in the United States, the newspaper writes "Moscow's comsomolets".