For 3 years, an ENT would have embezzled nearly 300,000 euros by using the vital card of his patients. He was indicted for fraud.
An ENT installed in Soyaux in Charente is suspected of having embezzled 286,000 euros in 3 years. Dr Manuel Albertyn used the vital cards of his patients and those of their beneficiaries to bill fictitious acts, or repeated examinations on the same patients.
According to information from our colleagues from South West, the doctor was taken into custody at the Angoulême police station on Tuesday. The next day, an examining magistrate notified him of his indictment for fraud.
Justice was seized after a complaint filed by the health insurance fund. The investigation entrusted to the regional judicial police service of Limoges revealed that the ORL declared acts on children when they were “physiologically impossible to perform”. Unjustified examinations have also been reported.
5 years in prison
In addition, repeated acts on the same patients were demonstrated during the investigation. A very high frequency – 3 times greater than in other ENTs – which could “generate physiological consequences on patients”. Also, a component “harm to persons” has been added to the fraud component, for which he incurs 5 years in prison.
For his part, Dr Albertyn denies his intention to defraud social security. The Belgian doctor defended himself by explaining that he was unfamiliar with the French system and by evoking his negligence in his administrative management.
After his indictment, the ORL was able to return home and resume his consultations since there was no ban on exercising his profession.
.
