IBARAKI (TR) – Ibaraki Prefectural Police have arrested a midwife in Tsukuba Metropolis for allegedly defrauding assist funds for a free COVID-19 testing program two years in the past.
In response to police, Yuki Ogawa, 51, is suspected of falsifying invoices to make it seem that she carried out 487 COVID-19 exams at her Tsukuba Midwifery Clinic Smile Beginning between April and August 2022.
The falsifications netted her roughly 7.7 million yen in assist funds, police mentioned. Ogawa is believed to have concurrently submitted invoices for precise exams and cast invoices for exams by no means administered.
As reported by Nippon Information Community (Sep. 18), police haven’t revealed whether or not she has admitted to costs of fraud and forgery.
In response to police, Ogawa collected solely a couple of dozen specimens for PCR testing and outsourced them to a laboratory over that interval. She is believed to have cast invoices for exams and padded the subsidy functions.
In response to the prefecture, the clinic utilized for about 6,500 subsidies between March 2022 and Could 2023 for about 42.93 million yen.
In June and July 2021, the prefecture started analyzing previous functions following fraudulent submissions by different companies. It was right now that suspicions of fraud arose because of the giant variety of functions.
