Colombia arrests healthcare executive over $105B heist
Source: Colombia Reports
by Adriaan Alsema March 9, 2018
Colombia arrests healthcare executive over ‘$105B’ heist
by Adriaan Alsema March 9, 2018
Prosecutors arrested the former director of a private healthcare intermediary over the alleged embezzlement of more than $105 billion, equivalent to 5% of Colombia’s GDP, in health funds.
The arrest of former Saludcoop director Carlos Palacino came after years of criminal investigations into the biggest of many healthcare-related heists that have bled Colombia’s healthcare system dry.
According to health authorities, Palacino and his fellow executives misspent $105 billion, or 5% of the country’s GDP, between 2000 and 2004.
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The consequences of the corruption at SaluudCoop and other private contractors have devastated Colombia’s universal healthcare system.
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for privatizers in the U.S. Who probably, however, look on this story as a success since a bunch of corrupt people got rich off of government funds. Their goal in the U.S.
See: Iraq war, military privatization, charter schools, etc. etc. etc. ad nauseum.
All basically money-laundering schemes to transfer taxpayer dollars to (largely) GOPeePee donors.
