PHANTOM PATIENTS.
FRENCH TREASURY ROBBED.
WHOIESALE ARRESTS MADE.
(Received 12.30 p.m.)
PARIS, April 13.
Thirty-four Marseilles doctors have been arrested charged with having defrauded the French Treasury of £430,000 during the war. They filled in voucher forms relating to imaginary sick and wounded soldiers, and thus secured payments for treatment and medicine ranging from 20 to 500 francs per case, case.
A number of chemists are charged with having presented fraudulent vouchers in connection with 3,000 expensive prescriptions for phantom patients. —(A. and N.Z. Cable.)
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Auckland Star, Volume LIV, Issue 89, 14 April 1923, Page 7
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