Family Accused in Massive French Healthcare Fraud Scheme Targeting Insurers

The intellectual mastermind of this massive fraud is the secretary of an ambulance company in the Yvelines. The modus operandi of this 31-year-old woman is to send fake bank account statements (RIB) to health insurance funds, mutual insurance companies and other ambulance companies in France. Thus, she received the amount of the reimbursed benefits into her own account.

Many of these benefits were fictitious, thanks to ambulance trips and clients that she completely invented, Le Parisien reports. Part of the diverted funds was sent to her family. Her brother and father were responsible for laundering the money received by wire transfer, by buying "luxury products and high-end vehicles." Part of the diverted money was also sent to Morocco. Investigations revealed that this massive fraud has earned them 675,000 euros.

The investigators from Conflans-Sainte-Honorine (Yvelines) arrested, on Tuesday, March 3, seven people, the secretary and six men and women from her family, aged 23 to 69. They also seized luxury products (handbags and three vehicles including a Mercedes Class C), three real estate properties and seven bank accounts.

On Thursday, March 5, the young woman and two members of her family were brought before the Versailles courthouse. They will be indicted for "organized fraud and criminal conspiracy." The four other suspects are being prosecuted for "organized money laundering."