On the eve of her 61st birthday, a physiotherapist from the nearby Bordeaux suburbs spent nearly forty-eight hours in police custody this week of December 16 at the Bordeaux central police station. The practitioner was questioned by police officers from the financial brigade of the Territorial Crime Division (DCT) as part of a case of alleged fraud to the detriment of the Primary Health Insurance Fund (CPAM).
She was released pending the conclusions of the investigation by the Interministerial Research Group (GIR) of Aquitaine, which is interested in the heritage aspect of the affair. According to investigators' initial estimates, she would have received nearly 490,000 euros in undue benefits.
It was Social Security agents from Haute-Garonne who, during an administrative check, discovered the first accounting errors of the physiotherapist, working between 2016 and 2018 near Toulouse. Having subsequently settled in Gironde, she allegedly continued to falsify medical prescriptions, overbill for procedures and bill for fictitious procedures.
A comfortable lifestyle
The physiotherapist was summoned by the police along with her husband, a retired physiotherapist, suspected of concealment of fraud. The latter, claiming to be unrelated to the alleged embezzlement, was quickly released.
The physiotherapist allegedly continued to falsify medical prescriptions, overbill for procedures and bill for fictitious procedures
The healthcare professional, with a flickering memory, was questioned at length by investigators. She would have admitted part of the facts. The money would have been used to ensure a comfortable lifestyle.
According to police calculations, she would have received a little more than 200,000 euros in undue benefits to the detriment of the CPAM31 and 290,000 euros in Gironde.
These facts should warrant her being summoned to court during the year 2025 to answer for fraud against a social protection organization for obtaining an undue allowance, fraudulent alteration of the truth and use forgery in writing.
