Hundreds committed $6.5B in healthcare fraud, including Broward Ferrari fraud suspect: Feds

MIAMI — A man already accused by the Broward Sheriff’s Office of a $500,000 Ferrari fraud scheme is among 455 people accused by the federal government of committing a total of more than $6.5 billion in healthcare fraud, prosecutors announced on Thursday.

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Giorgi Kimeridze, 43, of Staten Island, New York, is one of several people with South Florida ties accused in the U.S. Department of Justice’s 2026 National Health Care Fraud Takedown.

Local 10 News first reported on Kimeridze in April, when he was arrested by BSO under the name “Kimeridze Giorgi” on a state grand theft charge.

He was accused of participating in “a rash of schemes” by thieves who “utilize a fraudulent transportation company to acquire luxury vehicle transportation ‘jobs’ by legitimate auto dealerships” ― in that case, a fraud scheme involving a 2024 Ferrari Purosangue that was supposed to go from a dealership in Pompano Beach to a Maserati dealer in Monmouth, New Jersey.

Now, Kimeridze is accused of “facilitating the operation” of two durable medical equipment companies that fraudulently billed Medicare and other federal health care programs “more than $1 billion for urinary catheters, orthotic braces and wound dressings that beneficiaries did not need and did not receive,” of which, “approximately $4.9 million was paid,” according to a federal criminal complaint and a DOJ news release.

One of those companies was ABRH Care, authorities said. Another man, Ibrahim Hilmi, 58, of Miami, is also charged in connection with the operation of ABRH Care, authorities said.

Kimeridze, a native of the former Soviet country of Georgia, was taken into the custody of the Department of Homeland Security after bonding out of jail in April, the complaint states. He’s facing a charge of conspiracy to commit money laundering. The Ferrari case remained open in Broward court as of Thursday afternoon.

The DOJ also announced charges for several other South Florida residents accused of additional fraud schemes:

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Casilda Muniz Rodriguez, 57, of Hialeah, is accused of “fraudulently bill(ing) Medicare for over $117 million for skin substitutes and wound care products that were never provided.”

Investigators said Eduardo Javier Ibarra Arrowsmith, 61, of Miami, “impersonated a deceased Miami-Dade neurologist and used that doctor’s credentials — including his name, National Provider Identifier number, and Florida medical license number” as part of “a scheme to fraudulently certify naturalization applicants as disabled in order to exempt them from the English language and civics requirements of the U.S. citizenship naturalization test.”

Laura Seiler-Anstett, 55, of Coral Springs, is accused of a $58.3 million scheme involving durable medical equipment. Prosecutors said the “fraudulent claims were for orthotic braces that were medically unnecessary, ineligible for reimbursement, and procured through the payment of illegal kickbacks and bribes.”

Prosecutors said Yilian Cruz, 36, and Inti Cruz, 55, both of Miami Lakes; and Adaimis Perez Arencibia, 39, of Miami, are facing charges related to a mental health care fraud scheme. They said the Cruzes, married co-owners of the Miami clinic De La Cruz Mental Health LLC, conspired with others, including Perez Arencibia, a therapist to pay illegal kickbacks to recruit elderly Medicaid beneficiaries as patients.

Rene Yartu Couceiro, 57, of Miami, is accused in connection “with a Medicaid and Medicare fraud scheme involving a Miami mental health clinic’s payment of “donations” in the form of cash payments to Medicaid and Medicare beneficiaries for agreeing to receive psychosocial rehabilitation (PSR) and Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation (TMS) therapy that was not all provided as represented,” according to the DOJ release.

Rajiv Shah, 65, of Palm Beach Gardens, and Anthony Tursi, 39, of Boynton Beach, are accused of multi-million-dollar schemes involving fraudulent Medicare billing for durable medical equipment and “medically unnecessary genetic testing,” respectively.

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The DOJ has summaries of these and other cases on its website.