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  Flower Mound Hospital to Pay $18.2 Million to Settle Federal and State False Claims Act Allegations Arising from Improper Inducements to Referring Physicians

  US Department of Justice

  December 2, 2021

  Flower Mound Hospital Partners LLC (Flower Mound Hospital), a partially physician-owned hospital in Flower Mound, Texas, has agreed to pay $18.2 million to resolve allegations that it violated the False Claims Act by knowingly submitting claims to the Medicare, Medicaid and TRICARE programs that resulted from violations of the Physician Self-Referral Law and the Anti‑Kickback Statute.

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  9 entries have been added to the Belarus financial sanctions regime

  Office of Financial Sanctions Implementation

  December 2, 2021

  On 2 December 2021 the Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office updated the UK Sanctions List on GOV.UK. This list provides details of those designated under regulations made under the Sanctions Act. The following entries have been added to the consolidated list and are now subject to an asset freeze:

  • Grigoriy Yurievich Azarenok (Group ID: 14162)
  • Natalia Mikhailovna Buguk (Group ID: 14155)
  • Lyudmila Gladkaya (Group ID: 14159)
  • Sergey Alexandrovich Gusachenko (Group ID: 14161)
  • Alina Sergeevna Kasyanchyk (Group ID: 14156)
  • Andrey Evgenievich Krivosheyev (Group ID: 14157)
  • Andrei Nikolaevich Mukovozchyk (Group ID: 14158)
  • Andrei Parshyn (Group ID: 14160)
  • Open Joint Stock Company "Belaruskali" (Group ID: 14154)

   

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  Regulatory action against Greentube Alderney Limited

  Gambling Commission

  December 2, 2021

  An online gambling business must pay £685,000 after a Commission investigation revealed social responsibility and money laundering failures.

  Greentube Alderney – which operates admiralcasino.co.uk and bellfruitcasino.com – will also undergo extensive independent auditing for the failures which occurred between December 2019 and November 2020