{"id":91362,"date":"2026-06-27T21:35:46","date_gmt":"2026-06-27T21:35:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/?p=91362"},"modified":"2026-06-27T21:35:46","modified_gmt":"2026-06-27T21:35:46","slug":"mastermind-in-250-million-minnesota-covid-fraud-scheme-finally-arrested-in-somalia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/2026\/06\/27\/mastermind-in-250-million-minnesota-covid-fraud-scheme-finally-arrested-in-somalia\/","title":{"rendered":"Mastermind in $250 million Minnesota COVID fraud scheme finally arrested in Somalia"},"content":{"rendered":"<span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> < 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span><p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/img-s-msn-com.akamaized.net\/tenant\/amp\/entityid\/AA26H9jR.img?w=634&h=735&m=6&x=315&y=210&s=266&d=266\" alt=\"Abdikerm Abdelahi Eidleh, 42, was arrested Thursday in Mogadishu, Somalia. He had been indicted in September 2022 for his role in the Feeding Our Future scam, which prosecutors called the country's largest Covid\u2013era fraud\" \/><\/p>\n<p>One of the alleged perpetrators of\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.com\/news\/minnesota\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-t=\"{&quot;n&quot;:&quot;destination&quot;,&quot;t&quot;:13,&quot;a&quot;:&quot;click&quot;,&quot;b&quot;:1,&quot;c.t&quot;:7}\">Minnesota<\/a>\u2018s massive Covid fraud scheme was taken into custody in Somalia, roughly 30 years after US Black Hawk helicopters were shot down in the country\u2019s capital. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.msn.com\/en-gb\/news\/world\/mastermind-in-250-million-minnesota-covid-fraud-scheme-finally-arrested-in-somalia\/ar-AA26Hxrl?ocid=msedgntp&pc=HCTS&cvid=6a403edbe95c4c40b741ea7f09687913&ei=42\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span>One of the alleged perpetrators of\u00a0Minnesota\u2018s massive Covid fraud scheme was taken into custody in Somalia, roughly 30 years after US Black&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":91363,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[154],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-91362","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-health"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/Feeding-our-Future-Scheme.jpg","amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91362","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=91362"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91362\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":91364,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91362\/revisions\/91364"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/91363"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=91362"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=91362"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=91362"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}