HebaPress learned from its own sources that the Meknes Court of First Instance handed down sentences ranging from six months to two years in prison, with immediate enforcement, against four defendants, including two women, implicated in forging health coverage files to obtain undeserved financial compensation.
The investigations conducted by the judicial police officers revealed that the network members used the stamps and signatures of private sector doctors without their knowledge to prepare forged medical prescriptions and analyses. These were then submitted to social security institutions and mutual insurance companies, including the Office Chérifien des Phosphates (OCP) mutual insurance company. The case broke after a doctor filed a complaint upon discovering that his signature was being used on fraudulent files. The investigation led to the dismantling of the network, which employed an organized method of fraud and forgery. The data suggests a possible link between this group and a similar network dismantled in 2020.
The court decisions come at a time when voices are rising, demanding stricter control over the mechanisms for disbursing medical compensation and protecting doctors from the misuse of their stamps and signatures in fraudulent operations that have caused significant financial losses to insurance institutions.
