The Athens Prosecutor’s Office has brought serious felony and misdemeanor charges against those arrested in connection with the new fraud network involving the National Organization for Healthcare Services Provision (EOPYY).

Specifically, charges were filed for:

• Leading, forming, and joining a criminal organization
• Fraud committed jointly and repeatedly against a legal entity under public law (LEPL), causing damages exceeding €120,000
• Repeated false certification against a LEPL
• Incitement to commit the above offenses
• Forgery and use of forged documents, jointly and repeatedly, against a LEPL
• Aggravated drug trafficking committed jointly within a criminal organization, involving a doctor issuing prescriptions without medical justification and a pharmacist dispensing narcotics without a valid prescription
• Aggravated money laundering from criminal activity, committed in a professional capacity

Additional misdemeanor charges were also filed, including illegal possession of weapons and unlawful collection, storage, and use of personal data.

The accused have been granted a deadline to give their statements next Monday.