The relay doctor is suspected of having prescribed botulinum toxin, better known as botox, for more than half a million kronor - without having medical reasons for it.
The preparations have been picked up at one and the same pharmacy in southern Stockholm.
- I believe that this is pure fraud, says prosecutor Christer Sammens.
He has now brought charges against the doctor who is suspected of grossly false testimony.
- The doctor has connections to people in the beauty industry and he is familiar with the pharmacy where the preparations have been collected, says Christer Sammens.
The doctor, who denies the crime, is suspected of being part of something that is described as a growing problem.
"Doctors make big money"
When botox is used as a medicine for, for example, incontinence, migraines and muscle cramps, the preparations are included in the benefit system and are subsidized by taxpayers.
But this does not apply to aesthetic botox injections.
The problem is doctors who are not honest with their prescriptions.
- These doctors prescribe botox on prescription for the treatment of migraines and heavy sweating, but it is used for beauty injections so that the patient gets a discount with the high-cost protection.
It will be the taxpayers who have to pay and the doctors make a lot of money from this, says Lars-Erik Holm, chairman of the Council for Aesthetic Treatments, REBS.
Has alerted about the cheating
If the customer has a free card, the taxpayers can bear the entire material cost of several thousand kronor.
Lars-Erik Holm says that their organization has alerted about the botox cheating to several different authorities - but without being heard.
- No authority thinks it is on their table because beauty treatments are considered consumer products.
I really think it's time for the authorities involved in pharmaceutical statistics and pharmacy statistics to come together and say how they should handle this.
Because it is completely wrong that tax money goes to beauty treatments, it was never intended that way.