A woman suspected of having succeeded in being unduly reimbursed for more than a million euros in false hospitalization costs by “multiplying” insurance contracts will be tried for fraud in February 2024, the Gard police said on Thursday .
At the beginning of 2022, Departmental Security received a complaint from an insurance company concerning a situation report linked to a hospitalization that did not comply with that issued by the clinic, the police explained in a press release.
The investigation revealed a well-established system of fraud, according to the same source. The police discovered that the lady in question, having recurring health problems, was hospitalized between 15 and 18 weeks per year and that she had subscribed to 29 insurance contracts covering daily hospital ratesby modifying their identity (use of their maiden name, married name or both).
Up to 1000 euros per day reimbursement
This multitude of contracts allowed him to get reimbursed up to 1000 euros per day hospitalization, by accumulating reimbursements, further indicates the police. The facts date back to 2010 but those before 2015 cannot be retained due to statute of limitations. Between 2015 and 2022, however, nearly 1.3 million euros were defrauded from 12 French insurance companies, according to the police.
This woman, whose identity has not been revealed, was taken into custody on September 11 and nearly a million euros in criminal assets were seized, added the police. She received a summons to appear in court on February 16 for forgery and fraud, with use of forgery, indicated Departmental Security.