Overview

• Early-morning raids in Frankfurt and Darmstadt led to the provisional arrests of a 41-year-old assistant and two alleged accomplices, aged 31 and 50, after months of investigation.
• Investigators say the assistant used her employer’s practice software and real patient data without consent to generate counterfeit prescriptions for high-priced diabetes and weight-loss injections.
• The suspects allegedly sold the scripts or redeemed them at more than 100 pharmacies in southern Hesse and the Rhine-Main region, producing losses in the six-figure range for multiple health insurers.
• Searches of three apartments and the GP’s practice recovered forged sick notes, prescriptions and vaccination cards, as well as cash, jewelry and several live firearms.
• Prosecutors in Fulda and the Hesse state police are pursuing charges of organized billing fraud and document forgery, and authorities state the employing doctor is not a suspect.