Four hundred thousand euros: this is the amount of Social Security fraud attributed to a physiotherapist.
He was indicted at the end of September in Fontainebleau (Seine-et-Marne) for organized fraud, forgery and money laundering, reports
Le Parisien
.
Between 2017 and 2021, the suspect would have in Paris, Seine-et-Marne, Bas-Rhin and the Ardennes invented phantom patients, overcharged his services and produced 75 false prescriptions to be compensated.
As early as March 2018, the Paris Primary Health Insurance Fund had filed a complaint with the prosecution, denouncing a series of irregularities concerning this physiotherapist, working at the homes of his patients.
Investigators discovered that the man received 20,000 euros per month and that he had accounts scattered throughout Europe.
Large sums of money had been spent on the account of his partner and two pseudo patients.
Including that of a 41-year-old man suffering from psychiatric problems.
He received more than 250,000 euros.
A suspected accomplice also arrested
On September 21, the physiotherapist was arrested.
He refutes any participation in this scam and accuses his pseudo-patient, hired to recover his undue money, of having cheated on him, explains
Le Parisien
.
The latter, also arrested, confessed but explains that he did not make a false statement.
Without the physiotherapist, “the swindle is impossible to carry out because it is he, the health professional who makes the declarations of care, indicates a magistrate to our colleagues.
Faced with justice, these two men deliver two opposing versions.
But during all these years, they had made a pact.
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