A senior US official has linked Somalia’s UN envoy to an American healthcare company accused of Medicaid fraud, with the claims leading to a social media firestorm.

No criminal allegations have been made against the diplomat, nor any charges filed.

Jim O’Neill, deputy secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services, said on Monday in a post on X that Abukar Dahir Osman, Somalia’s permanent representative to the UN and current president of the Security Council, had been associated with Progressive Health Care Services, a home health agency based in Cincinnati, Ohio.

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