By james art 
A Hialeah businessman has been charged with washing nearly two million dollars as part of a scheme of fraud involving the Medicare program, which amounts to $ 41 million and sending some of these funds to Cuba, according to federal authorities.
Edelberto Borges MoralesAt 62, he was arrested by federal agents as he was about to get on a flight to Varadero this Thursday, according to Local 10 Referring to the accusation document as a source.
However, instead of arriving on the island, he is transferred to Federal Retention Center in the center of MiamiWhere he remains imprisonment without a guarantee or date of hearing, he is still created, according to court records.
A scheme for fraud by $ 41 million
The criminal appeal filed with the Miami Federal Court claims that Borges drank $ 1.9 million in fraud involving three medical equipment companies in South Florida: One-Star Professional Services Inc., Med-Union Medical Center Inc. and Vida Med Center LLC.
These companies have filed deceptive claims to Medicare A total of $ 41 million, billing for permanent medical equipment (DME), “which has never been provided,” the indictment said.
The investigation revealed that the beneficiaries who claim to have received the equipment “have never heard of the company that supposedly supplied it, nor did they have an affair with the prescribed doctor indicated in the billing document”, according to Medicare Records.
“Each of the interviewed beneficiaries said he neither needed nor received the durable medical equipment that was allegedly prescribed,” the complaint stresses.
More specially, a doctor referred to as prescribed appointed in Star stated that “he has never heard Star“And that he did not practice at the Medley address, registered by the company since 2014.
He also denied that he had prescribed medical equipment for patients related to Medicare’s allegations.
The fraud went even more: more than 95% of the invoicing was carried out using “skin codes related to skin grafts and the application of dermal substitutes”, but none of the beneficiaries is required or suffered injuries that justify this type of treatment.
In fact, one of them told the agents: “I was prescribed so many skin grafts that they should think I was a whale.”
The role of Borges in the scheme
Authorities have accused Borges of using three companies registered in Hyaliah to drink money received from fraudulent bills.
Companies Rx exclusive and Gbt max were created on October 16, 2024 and A & MTX Group was created five days later.
They all operated from the same address: office building at 1275 W. 47th place, Hialeah.
“All DME companies have sent checks to Borges companies,” investigators say.
Moreover, After analyzing the defendant’s trips, authorities found that he made approximately 35 trips between Miami and Cuba for a period of two years, which triggered that some of the money had been transferred to the island.
The complaint details that Borges had pictures of empty checks from Star On his phone, which contradicts his claim that he “does not know that he is the designated owner” of the companies and that “he has never checked none of the approximately $ 2 million checks.”
In his defense, Borges claims that he has the photos, “because he suspects that what the individual asks him to do can one day land him in trouble,” according to the report.
Possible connection to Cuba and the risk of maximum punishment
Agents also note that Borges claims to reside in the United States, but that he has spent “A considerable time in Cuba due to the need to support a relative.”
Borges is now facing a federal charges for conspiracy for making money laundering, which can lead to a sentence of up to 20 years in prison.
The case is carried out at the Miami Federal Court, where authorities continue to deepen the Network of Shell companies and the potential transfer of funds to the island.