The Second Section of the Provincial Court of Las Palmas will try next Tuesday in Gran Canaria the owner of a clinical laboratory in Lanzarote accused of defrauding an insurance company of more than 176,000 euros.
In the indictment, the Prosecutor's Office asks for the accused a sentence of five years in prison for a continued crime of fraud and another of forgery in a private document with special disqualification for the exercise of the right to passive suffrage during the term of the sentence and a penalty of 12 months of fine, with a daily fee of 12 euros and subsidiary personal responsibility.
The accused was the sole administrator of a clinical laboratory in Puerto del Carmen, which was responsible for performing the clinical analyses entrusted by an insurance company. The events date back to between 2002 and 2007, when he allegedly defrauded the insurance company of up to 176,349 euros.
According to the Public Prosecutor's Office, the accused would have claimed from the insurance company invoices for clinical analyses that were not prescribed by the collaborating doctors or introducing the same analysis "several times in an invoice".
The Public Prosecutor's Office argues that the accused L.O.C.D. allegedly "used three false techniques". One of them was allegedly adding "invented requests to the medical prescription" to increase the invoice that he then passed on to the insurance company. On other occasions, according to the Prosecutor's Office, he altered "in its entirety" the medical prescriptions, making use of old checks, which "have not been proven how they came into his possession".
Thirdly, the accused allegedly duplicated the prescribed analyses, so that when the insured went to the clinical laboratory, he allegedly issued several healthcare checks "for a single analysis" and made the insured sign "several times for a single consultation".
To conclude, the Public Prosecutor's Office requests the payment of 148,471.96 euros to compensate the insurance company.
