Clinic Owner Arrested in Casablanca Medical Invoice Fraud Scheme

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Clinic Owner Arrested in Casablanca Medical Invoice Fraud Scheme

Eight individuals including a woman and the owner of a private clinic were brought before the public prosecutor’s office near the Court of Appeal of Casablanca last Saturday. They had been arrested by the National Brigade of the Judicial Police for their alleged involvement in a case of fraud and falsification of medical care invoices.

These individuals formed a criminal gang and their modus operandi consists in soliciting the generosity of certain benefactors under the pretext that they want to pay the medical care and hospitalization costs of patients. This is how they present these benefactors with inflated invoices from the clinic where most of the suspects work, reports the General Directorate of National Security (DGSN) in a press release.

The woman was the first to be arrested after research and investigations carried out by the national security services. The mastermind of this criminal gang, it is she who approached the supposed patients, managed to make them believe that taking their photo could help them, but in reality she used the photos to justify the falsified invoices, the false medical reports and records and collect as many donations as possible, with the complicity of her accomplices, adds the same source.

After being brought before the justice system, five were placed in detention while three others were released but remain prosecuted. The investigation is ongoing to determine all the details of this case.