HAVANA
(AP)/ PETER ORSI
A Cuban official said Wednesday that the country has strict
controls to avoid money laundering and works closely with banks to
detect and deter fraudulent transactions, responding to allegations by
U.S. prosecutors that millions of dollars defrauded from Medicare were routed to the island's financial system.
The statement from Johana Tablada, deputy director for U.S. affairs at the Cuban Foreign Ministry, came in response to a request from The Associated Press after a Cuban-American man in South Florida was ordered held in the case this week.
"Foreign
commercial banks that maintain accounts in Cuban banks are obliged to
operate in strict compliance with international and Cuban rules and must
guarantee the reliability of their transactions and the correct use of
their accounts," read the statement emailed to the AP on Wednesday.
Tablada
did not directly address whether any money from the alleged Medicare
scam has been deposited in Cuban banks. She said that while Cuba works
with foreign banks to fight money laundering, Washington's 50-year-old
economic embargo prevents it from doing the same with American banks.
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