The DIICOT prosecutors, together with police officers from the Directorate for Investigation of Economic Crime, conducted on Monday 59 searches in Bucharest and Braila, Constanta and Vrancea counties at pharmacists and doctors accused fraudulently settling large sums of money from the National Health Insurance Unique Fund, hotnews.ro informs.
According to DIICOT a criminal group is targeted, which operates in the municipality of Braila, whose members committed the crimes of fraud, tax evasion, money laundering, forgery of official documents, forgery, computer fraud, IT fraud, abuse of office (all repeated acts) and for establishing a criminal organization, for falsification of private documents, false statements, usury, nepotism, influence peddling, giving and receiving bribes and for blackmail.
The investigations revealed, according to the source, that the group was made up of 25 members, representatives and employees of pharmacies operating under the name SC Ahmeya Pharm SRL and family doctors or specialists (including oncologists) that work in the Braila and Constanta counties.
The group members allegedly fraudulently settled, during 2011-2015, sums of money from the National Health Insurance Unique Fund. The estimated value of the damage so far is of RON 9 million.