IBARAKI (TR) – Ibaraki Prefectural Police have arrested a midwife in Tsukuba City for allegedly defrauding help funds for a free COVID-19 testing program two years in the past.
According to police, Yuki Ogawa, 51, is suspected of falsifying invoices to make it seem that she carried out 487 COVID-19 assessments at her Tsukuba Midwifery Clinic Smile Birth between April and August 2022.
The falsifications netted her roughly 7.7 million yen in help funds, police mentioned. Ogawa is believed to have concurrently submitted invoices for precise assessments and cast invoices for assessments by no means administered.
Police haven’t revealed whether or not she has admitted to fees of fraud and forgery.
According 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 assessments and padded the subsidy purposes.
According to the prefecture, the clinic utilized for roughly 6,500 subsidies between March 2022 and May 2023 for roughly 42.93 million yen.
In June and July 2021, the prefecture started analyzing previous purposes following fraudulent submissions by different companies. It was presently that suspicions of fraud arose because of the giant variety of purposes.