Faced with serious charges, they will be brought before the judicial authorities in order to apologize to the members of the two criminal groups who are accused of extensive fraud with fake drug prescriptions, which have caused millions in damage to the National Organization for the Provision of Health Services (EOPYY).

Criminal charges have been brought against those arrested for the case, which include eight serious felonies and two misdemeanors, while the defendants have already received deadlines and are preparing their apologies before the investigator.

The case file on the activity of the circles that attacked EOPYY includes the crimes concerning

  1. Address of a criminal organization
  2. Formation and membership of a criminal organization
  3. Fraud against a Legal Entity under Public Law over 120,000 euros
  4. False certificate against NPDD of more than 120,000 euros
  5. Forgery against NPDD over 120,000
  6. Distinguished drug trafficking by a doctor
  7. Violation of the law on personal data with the purpose of obtaining a benefit of more than 120,000
  8. Laundering of more than 120,000 in the context of a criminal organization.

In addition, misdemeanor charges have also been filed for the circulation of harmful drugs and for violence against an employee.

The two criminal groups, with members mainly doctors and pharmacists, appear to have been active since at least 2020, which raised suspicions a year ago. As reported by the EOPYY, which is preparing to take legal action against the defendants, in October 2023 “after a thorough investigation by the competent Services, two complete files with indications of systemic fraud by doctors and pharmacists were sent to the Economic Police for investigation” in burden of the Organization. The Audit of the Agency and the investigation of the prosecuting authorities revealed the action of a ring in which four doctors and managers of eight pharmacies in the northern suburbs were involved. The owner of a pharmaceutical warehouse, considered to be a key member of the second organization, which is attributed the distribution and circulation of dangerous preparations, appears to have collaborated with these persons.

The group of accused doctors is accused of using AMKA, mainly foreigners for whom false information had been declared, to proceed with false prescriptions which they executed virtually through pharmacists in order to achieve the illegal compensations paid to them by EOPYY.