Overview

• LKA officials say attempts have increased over the past one to two years, with case numbers this year holding at a higher level.
• Targets include antidiabetics used for weight loss, expensive cancer medicines, and drugs with addiction potential such as Wegovy and Ozempic.
• Pharmacy employees detected most known forgeries in time, which in many cases prevented financial losses from denied reimbursements.
• Police have made arrests, including an 18-year-old in Munich whose case pointed investigators to suspected forgers in Hannover and Mannheim.
• The LKA and Munich police sent spring warnings to about 1,000 pharmacies with detection guidance, and investigators advise retaining suspect scripts, quietly notifying police, engaging suspects if safe until officers arrive, and filing a report.