Overview
- The Staatsanwaltschaft München I filed charges on Monday against three men described as Moldovan for more than 100 alleged offences including organized document forgery, fraud and illegal trade in medicines.
- Prosecutors say the suspected scheme ran in phases from December 2024 through January 2026 and involved placing forged reimbursable prescriptions at pharmacies across several German states.
- Investigators linked suspicious phone orders to a mid‑January raid on an apartment in Potsdam where they seized many forged and blank prescription forms, a laptop with print templates and other materials described as a forgery workshop.
- The accused allegedly targeted high‑value products such as weight‑loss injections and oncology drugs that can sell for several thousand euros, obtaining them for a nominal fee and reselling them on the black market for large markups.
- Authorities frame the case as part of a national rise in professional prescription‑fraud networks, several related probes are ongoing, and the case has been sent to the Munich regional court for prosecution with multi‑year sentences possible if convictions follow.