Three doctors arrested in alleged fraud involving fake referrals

Three doctors were arrested Wednesday successful the Piraeus country for allegedly defrauding the state wellness insurer EOPYY of much than €250,000 done the issuance of fake aesculapian referrals. File photo. [Shutterstock]

Three doctors person been arrested successful the Piraeus country for allegedly defrauding the state wellness insurer EOPYY of much than €250,000 done the issuance of fake aesculapian referrals.

According to the Directorate for Combating Organized Crime, a specialized Hellenic Police unit, the radical is accused of operating since May 2021, carrying retired 1,961 fictitious carnal therapy referrals corresponding to 19,610 sessions, utilizing 1,683 κοινωνικά information numbers belonging to unsuspecting insured individuals.

Those arrested see a 39-year-old physiotherapist, identified arsenic the alleged person of the group, and two orthopedic surgeons aged 51 and 49. The arrests took spot connected Wednesday during a constabulary cognition successful the Piraeus area.

Authorities said the lawsuit record besides implicates an worker of EOPYY and includes charges such arsenic fraud against the state, forgery, mendacious statements, violations of idiosyncratic information legislation, and bribery-related offences.

During coordinated searches astatine residences, aesculapian practices, and a physiotherapy clinic, constabulary seized astir €9,000 successful cash, physics devices, and handwritten notes.

The suspects were taken earlier the competent prosecutorial authorities arsenic the probe continues.