Cyprus Mail25 Jun 2026

US businessman accused of stealing billions from healthcare arrested in Kyrenia

American businessman Ibrahim Hilmi, who is accused of devising a scheme to defraud over $3.7 billion from Medicare, the United States government-funded health insurance programme that supports elderly and disabled people, was arrested in Kyrenia and brought to America earlier this week, according to the justice department.

FBI Director Kash Patel said that Hilmi, 58, “is charged with one of the biggest Medicare scams in history” and has been brought to Miami, Florida, following a foreign...

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