2024-05-23 17:03:37
Officers from the Spanish Nationwide Police introduced the arrest of a 34-year-old Cuban citizen, accused of impersonating the identification and credentials of a well known physician specializing in gastroenterology.
This particular person, whose identify has not been revealed, managed to seek the advice of 800 sufferers in a non-public clinic in Madrid, producing social {and professional} alarm within the capital of the Iberian nation.
The investigation, which started in early April after a criticism from a physician whose identification had been stolen, revealed a fancy community of deception and doc falsification.
A false physician who handled 800 sufferers in a non-public clinic in Madrid was arrested https://t.co/HXMFba9mnl
— El Mundo Gran Madrid (@EM_GranMadrid) Could 21, 2024
The affected physician had beforehand labored in the identical clinic because the impostor, discovering that another person was practising drugs beneath his identify.
The investigators, following the Cuban’s path, discovered irrefutable proof of the crime. On the medical heart’s web site and within the clinic itself, the true physician’s info was nonetheless obtainable, nevertheless it was the imposter who handled the sufferers, prescribing and prescribing medical exams with the registered quantity.
Moreover, it was found that the pretend physician didn’t have any authorization to follow drugs in Spain.
The plot was sophisticated after we found that behind the pretend physician there was an individual in command of a contracting firm, investigated for being a needed collaborator on this legal community.
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Presumably, this firm was in command of offering specialised docs to numerous clinics, thereby billing a big proportion of the quantity paid by insurers for medical consultations and exams.
Lastly, the Cuban was arrested and offered earlier than the judicial authority, accused of crimes of usurpation of civil standing, doc falsification {and professional} intrusion.
Two medical seals, 4 prescriptions, and check flyers with the royal physician’s seal have been additionally confiscated.
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