Corona test fraud in a cell phone shop?
Created: 11/28/2022, 5:00 p.m
By: Susanne Weiss
One test station after the other opened in Geretsried at the beginning of the year, one of them on Karl-Lederer-Platz.
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A 31-year-old and a 34-year-old allegedly took advantage of the Corona crisis.
The Nuremberg Public Prosecutor's Office has filed charges.
Geretsried – With a large contingent of emergency services, the police carried out criminal investigations in a corona test station on Karl-Lederer-Platz in April.
The operators of a mobile phone shop had opened them in their shop at the end of January.
After the raid, both remained closed (we reported).
The Nuremberg Public Prosecutor's Office has now filed charges with the lay judges at the Munich District Court.
Geretsried: Charges of fraud in the Corona test station
The Bavarian Central Office for Combating Fraud and Corruption in the Health Care System (ZKG), based at the Nuremberg Public Prosecutor's Office, has investigated the two operators of the test station.
She assumes that significantly more tests have been billed to the Bavarian Association of Statutory Health Insurance Physicians (KVB) than have actually been carried out.
The ZKG accuses a 31-year-old man and a 34-year-old woman of commercial fraud in the operation of corona test stations.
The former is in custody for risk of absconding.
According to the indictment, it is about a planned profit of over 335,000 euros.
The two operators are said to have "used a software program for processing, with which customers could register for a test date via a link," explains senior public prosecutor Matthias Held, press spokesman for the ZKG.
Alternatively, the data was recorded on site.
"When doing the billing, the operators should not have entered the number of tests that can be determined by the software, but rather inflated imaginary numbers in the billing portal of the KVB," says Held.
Anonymous tip led to investigations in the Corona test station
As a result, the two are said to have received a payment of a good 150,000 euros from KVB within a month.
The KVB did not pay out another 185,000 euros for the billing in March because of the preliminary proceedings that were already ongoing at the time.
The reason was "an anonymous telephone tip at a police inspection," according to the senior public prosecutor.
At the main hearing, the ZKG aims to collect the proceeds.
In addition, the accused are said to have issued negative test certificates, although no rapid test was carried out.
This is punishable under the Infection Protection Act.
The district court decides on the admission of the indictment and the opening of the main proceedings.
A date is not yet in sight, according to the press office.
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