More than 1 million BGN Siphoned off from Health Insurance Fund in Plovdiv

More than one million BGN has been siphoned off from the National Health Fund through a criminal scheme with fictitious pharmacies and duplication of expensive medicines for hepatitis C. This was announced on 10^th of May at an extraordinary briefing of the Regional Prosecutor's Office in the city of Plovdiv following yesterday’s arrests in the centre of the city.

Two employees of the Regional Health Insurance Fund were detained in the operation. They will remain in custody together with two more people involved in the scheme: an owner of a chain of pharmacies and a person with no income and no assets, in whose name the phantom pharmacies were registered.

90,000 BGN were siphoned off in the recent month under the scheme. The money were paid for expensive medicines fortreatment of Hepatitis C, ti the amount of 25,000 BGN.

Deputy district Prosecutor, Galin Gavrailov, explained that the people wioth Hepatitis received the medication from pharmacies which worked with the Health Insurance Fund legally. The data of the same patients were used, they did not receive medication for a send time, but payments from the health fund were made, he added.