Four times the number of tests reported
The investigation against T. Started in November 2022 after the Association of Statutory Health Insurance Physicians I expressed doubts about the numbers reported from the four test centers, as the Tagesspiegel reports.
It is estimated that around 180,000 tests were carried out, but T. Billed for 725,591 tests. He charged eight million euros for it. However, only about half of this was paid out because discrepancies were already suspected.
The documents show that in some cases 60 people were tested within one minute. During an inspection, it was also noticed that identical people had allegedly been tested several times at several locations within a very short period of time. T. Has since confessed that this was deliberate billing fraud.
Gambling debts as a motive for fraud
The court originally scheduled six days for the trial against T. Who has been in custody since November 2024. However, the defendant confessed directlyigt, which accelerated the processigt.
He declared that he had “lost his temper”. Losses in gambling, especially poker, put him in a financially oppressive situation. According to T. Word got out that the Association of Statutory Health Insurance Physicians “doesn’t check the numbers properly”.
T. Saw this as a way out to pay off his gambling debts. To cover up his crime, he founded a fake company and acted as an alleged Italian businessman.
Does pathological gambling reduce guilt?
Researchers consider gambling addiction to be a dangerous behavioral disorder that is often underestimated.
According to the Federal Court of Justice (BGH), however, gambling behavior is pathological in itself “no pathological mental disorder that significantly limits the ability to blame or […]. However, the BGH also stated that a serious personality change or massive withdrawal symptoms in connection with a gambling addiction could impair culpability in certain cases.
However, long-planned crimes with time-consuming preparation are an indication that the person committing the crime should be classified as fully culpable. In any case, a perpetrator's passion for gambling requires special presentation in the trial in order to be taken into account when determining culpabilityigt.
Multi-year prison sentence announced
The public prosecutor's office demanded five and a half years' imprisonment for T. While the defense attorney pleaded for three years and nine months due to the quick admission of guilt.
Ultimately, T. Was sentenced to four and a half years in prison, although the verdict is not yet final. A possible reduction in culpability due to gambling addiction does not seem to have been discussed.
In addition to the prison sentence to be served, T. Also has to pay back the money collected. It currently seems unclear whether some of this money is still in T. Liege's bank accounts.
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