With two of the five defendantswho appeared before the Investigator for fraud against EOPYYto they are taken to prison the apology process for the case of false prescriptions, which allegedly caused damage to the Organization, which is estimated at more than 500 thousand euros, was completed.

The alleged leader of the ring, the president of some of the companies involved and a factor in a sports association of Northern Greece and an accountant, to whom the evidence of the case file assigns a central role in the management of the disputed legal schemes, were provisionally detained for the case.

The Investigator and Prosecutor temporarily released the remaining three defendants, who apologized earlier before the judicial officer, deciding that they must pay a monetary guarantee set in amounts from 8 to 10 thousand euros.

The defendants, who deny the indictment against them, are facing charges related to criminal organization, fraud, false statements, bribery of an official, money laundering.

The case concerns the issuance of false documents for the supply of medical equipment to EOPYY insured persons, without their knowledge, in collaboration with doctors who provided their services to the group for a fee.

According to the case file, the action of the defendants seems to have started in 2018, while soon the judicial authorities will also ask for explanations from the doctors involved. In fact, in their statements, some of the patients whose AMKAs appear in the disputed false prescriptions, seem to say that they do not even know the doctors who prescribed with their information. In some other cases, the AMKAs used concerned patients who are not alive.