Toulouse: an “anti-cancer” drug scammer arrested by the national police
A 28-year-old woman from Toulouse used fake medical prescriptions to get prescribed particularly expensive “anti-cancer” drugs. She has just been interviewed by the police. She refuses to give the names of the sponsors of this traffic with an international dimension
In France, drugs to fight cancer are fully covered by the primary health insurance fund (CPAM), like all long-term illness treatments (ALD). This is one of the specificities of France… These “anti-cancer” treatments, at the forefront of medical research, are therefore extremely expensive.
This feeds a lot of covetousness abroad and innervates contraband trafficking circuits with an international dimension similar in many respects to drug trafficking. Recently, a Toulouse doctor was the victim. His name and professional references have been affixed to the bottom of fake prescriptions specific to ALD treatments that are more real than life. These fake prescriptions made it possible to withdraw two boxes of “anti-cancer” drugs worth 8,800 euros from a Toulouse pharmacy!
The doctor already victim of identity theft
This was not the first time this had happened to this carer. He had already had to prove in the past that he had nothing to do with the same type of Social Security scam. In December 2021, these famous drugs had been withdrawn a few days apart from a Toulouse pharmacy thanks to these false documents. It is a 28-year-old young woman, domiciled in Mirail and well known to the police who had gone to withdraw these products.
She had used her own vital card. It was therefore not too difficult for the police officers of the general investigation unit of the Left Bank specializing in scams and financial fraud of all kinds to trace this young woman.
She was heard by the investigators under the free hearing regime. She explained to them that she had only acted in this case as an “intermediary” against a commission of 500 euros. She told them that “the fake prescriptions had come to her by email”. Unfortunately, she erased all traces of these digital exchanges on her mailbox and refused to give any information on the sponsors of this scam. This lack of collaboration with the police should not work in her favor when she will soon be before the Toulouse criminal court for this scam.