In 15 years, she had accumulated a small jackpot.
This Thursday, Amal H., a 44-year-old former medical secretary, was sentenced by the Beauvais criminal court to a 10-month suspended prison sentence.
Judged for breach of trust, she was suspected of having embezzled several tens of thousands of euros from her employers, two liberal doctors installed in Beauvais.
Hired in 1998, the forty-something had succeeded in setting up a well-established system which consisted in modifying the account book of the status of people who paid in cash.
She thus pocketed the sum of a beneficiary of social security by transforming him on the register into a holder of universal medical coverage (CMU).
"I was sick of it"
If it benefited from the “blind trust” of its employers, Amal H. ended up being discovered in 2015 by the two general practitioners after a detailed study of the account book.
"I felt totally betrayed, I was sick of it," explained one of them at the first hearing, on March 11.
The two men then estimated their loss at 20,000 € for one, 50,000 € for the other.
If she was finally sentenced to a sentence greater than the 6 months suspended prison sentence requested by the public prosecutor, the financial damage was finally revised downwards, the prevention period going from 2012 to 2015. The forty-something will have to reimburse 19,000. € to each doctor and € 2,500 for non-pecuniary damage.
"In the end, it is a relief for the victims who can finally turn the page after 6 years of waiting", welcomed at the end of the hearing Me Domitille Risbourg, lawyer for one of the doctors, who recalled during the first hearing that Amal H.'s actions had “dramatic consequences on the management of the cabinet”.