This Civil Guard arrested someone Pharmacist of the Comtat district and six people, five in charge of nursing homes and the other a friend of the pharmacist, for fraud of more than 39,000 euros into Social Security by simulating the sale of drugs for nursing home patients to those who have been cloned. health cards. Collaborative operation Ministry of HealthIt allowed the intervention of nearly 3,000 boxes of drugs and more than 500 cloned health cards billed to Social Security, as well as medical documents from nursing home patients.
The investigations began in October last year when members of the Ministry of Health’s Pharmacy Inspection Zone became aware of a seizure at a Comtat pharmacy. Unusual trade in funded drug sales These suspicions led to an initial inspection by the National Health System, in which inspectors found various irregularities of an administrative nature, so the Regional Health Directorate in Alicante alerted the Civil Guard and asked them to accompany them for a new inspection.
Health inspectors also participated in the same month, accompanied by officials. Regional Team of the Villena Civil Guard Judicial Police and seized cloned magnetic cards Health information about patients from the Generalitat Valenciana and a large number of medicine boxes without barcodes known as seal coupons.
expired drugs
During an inspection of the pharmacy, they discovered the rooms they were in. Accumulated drugs allegedly distributed accompanied by expired drugs, all with cleaning chemicals, so they also violated the legislation governing their storage.
Researchers also found a database. personal information of prisoners in various residences When they identified a friend from the state of Alicante and the pharmacist leaving the pharmacy, they found him carrying a box with more magnetic cards to be cloned and a filing cabinet with medical reports and some handwritten documents from patients.
After the intervention on all this material, which contains approximately 3,000 boxes of medicines, the value of which is more than 39,000 Euros and invoiced to the SGK, More than 500 cloned health cards and various medical documents from nursing home patients, the Civil Guard began their investigation to identify those responsible for the alleged scam from a Comtat municipality’s pharmacy.
The investigation revealed that the health cards of the patients who applied to the centers for the elderly or dependents in the province of Alicante were cloned with the knowledge of the people in charge of these residences.
As they sold the drugs to cardholders responsible for the NHS, the new cards were used to realize simulated exemptions, but the product was not distributed but instead set aside without its sealed coupon. The final step, presumed to be with the pharmacy owner’s knowledge, was to put the expense on the National Health System, which generates illegal economic gains in the establishment. “The desire to bill and profit was such that, distributed medicine to elderly people who did not have the prescribed medicine Billed into the National Social Security System,” the Civil Guard confirms.
After collecting all the data on the alleged fraud, on January 19, the Civil Guard, pharmacist, 39 years old, He questioned 6 people who were friends of the pharmacist between the ages of 37 and 87 and 5 managers of the residences as suspects. So far, none of those involved had a criminal record and, depending on their degree of involvement, have been charged with Social Security, public health and falsification of public documents, as well as privacy fraud. transfer, dissemination and disclosure of personal medical data without the consent of the owners. HE Instruction Court No. 4 in Alcoy this gives the order to prosecute for fraud.