The instigator of a vast social security scam was sentenced to four years in prison and a fine of 200,000 euros.
He was one of the brains behind this vast social security fraud. Marcel Mirkovitch was sentenced to four years in prison and a fine of 200,000 euros, with continued detention, by the court in Grasse (Alpes-Maritimes). The man is accused of having defrauded 600,000 euros from the Primary Health Insurance Funds and complementary health insurance between 2009 and 2012.
Many accomplices
The fraud was based on the issuance of prescriptions for drugs, generally very expensive, to false patients holding spoofed Vitale cards. Once their prescription in hand, these fake patients presented themselves to the pharmacist of La Colle-sur-Loup, who did not deliver them the drugs but were reimbursed by Social Security.
The scam therefore involved accomplices, who also appeared in court: a dozen complacent doctors, several bogus patients and a rogue pharmacist. In the end, the benefit was shared between all the protagonists.
The role of Marcel Mirkovitch, one of the three pillars of this organization, with his aunt on the run and the pharmacist of La Colle-sur-Loup, consisted in canvassing the doctors to have the drugs prescribed and to drop them off at the dispensary. spoofed Vitale cards.
Once the pot aux roses discovered, Marcel Mirkovitch was sentenced to 6 years in prison for complicity in organized gang fraud, a decision he appealed. Sentences of up to three years in prison were distributed to the other protagonists. The pharmacist as well as one of the doctors were sentenced to a definitive ban on practice.
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