Dozens of searches at medical offices in a criminal file targeting 31 hospitals in 16 counties
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More than 20 searches were conducted on Tuesday at medical offices in the country, in a file involving 31 hospitals, with suspicion, among others, that the consents of volunteers to test drugs were forged, the Romanian Police informs.
Police thus conducted searches at medical offices in the capital and four other counties in a criminal file in which several doctors are targeted for bribery, abuse of office, forgery and forgery of official documents, documents being seized from 31 hospitals in 16 counties, according to the Romanian Police. Judicial sources said the Bucharest Central Military Hospital and the Psychiatric Hospital Alexandru Obregia were checked.
“The searches were conducted at several hospitals in Bucharest and Arad, Cluj, Constanta, Dolj, where the accused work and at the offices of five companies in the medical field, which represent the interests of sponsors. Documents and samples were seized from 31 hospitals located in the counties of Arges, Botosani, Buzau, Brasov, Cluj, Constanta, Dambovita, Dolj, Iasi, Mures, Neamt, Prahova, Suceava, Sibiu, Timis and Vrancea,” reads a Romanian Police press release.
Police suspect that, among others, the physicians allegedly conducted clinical studies testing medication for mental illness by counterfeiting the volunteers consent.
In the same file is being investigated a psychiatrist at a hospital in Arad, a professor at a university in the same city, accused by prosecutors of requesting and receiving money from interested persons to appear as hospitalised in the Department of Psychiatry . They needed documents for the retirement papers due to illness.
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