{"id":5578,"date":"2026-05-14T22:49:00","date_gmt":"2026-05-14T19:49:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/?p=5578"},"modified":"2026-05-14T22:49:00","modified_gmt":"2026-05-14T19:49:00","slug":"circuit-that-cheated-the-eopyy-how-they-worked-three-arrests","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/?p=5578","title":{"rendered":"Circuit that cheated the EOPYY – How they worked, three arrests"},"content":{"rendered":"

Circuit<\/b> allegedly running a fraud<\/b> against the EOPYY<\/strong> has been busted by the Hellenic Police<\/b> with the loss to the organisation exceeding 260,000 euros<\/strong>. <\/p>\n

Three people<\/strong> were arrested in the case<\/strong>: a 39-year-old physical therapist<\/b>, who is alleged to be a lead member<\/b> of the organisation, and two orthopaedic doctors<\/b> aged 51 and 49.<\/p>\n

According to the investigation<\/b>, as of May 2021<\/b>, the members of the group had formed an organized mechanism aimed at illegally collecting compensation from EOPYY through fictitious medical procedures for physical therapies<\/b>.<\/p>\n

In particular, the 39-year-old physiotherapist<\/strong> allegedly led the action, while the two orthopaedic surgeons<\/strong> proceeded to systematically issue false opinions<\/strong> and physical therapy certificates<\/strong> to insured persons, without their knowledge of the use of their data. <\/strong>The MCA<\/strong> of the insureds were obtained, according to the case file, from the physical therapy facility, and then fictitious sessions were registered and performance vouchers were signed without actual provision of services<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

A characteristic of the method is that in 1.641 opinions had reported non-existent telephone connections<\/strong>, which reinforced the assessment that the insureds were unaware of the use of their data.<\/p>\n

At the same time, the involvement of an EOPYY employee<\/strong>, who allegedly leaked official documents<\/strong> and received money for filing complaints<\/strong> against those involved, is being investigated.<\/p>\n

The investigation has established the issuance and execution of 1.961 fictitious referrals<\/strong>, corresponding to 19,610 physiotherapy sessions to 1,683 insured persons<\/strong>, with the total loss exceeding \u20ac264,475.50.<\/p>\n

In searches<\/b> carried out, \u20ac8,990, handwritten notes, mobile phones and tablets were found and seized.<\/p>\n

A case was filed against them, as well as against an employee of the EOPYY, for a number of serious offences, including participation in a criminal group, serial forgery, false certificates, fraud against the state and NDPD, bribery and bribery of an employee, as well as violation of official secrecy<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

The arrested persons were taken to the relevant prosecution authority<\/b>, while the investigation continues for the full mapping of the ring and possible expansion of its activities.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Greek police have dismantled a ring that allegedly carried out fraud against the Greek National Health Insurance Fund (EOPYY), with the damage to the organization…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5579,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5578","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-greece"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5578","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5578"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5578\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/5579"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5578"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5578"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5578"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}