Profiting hundreds of billions of social insurance dong from selling sick leave certificates
There are about tens of thousands of people who bought unemployment certificates to take advantage of social insurance benefits with a total amount of up to several hundred billion VND.
Regarding the case of selling sick leave certificates and social insurance benefits, on the evening of May 30, the leader of Bien Hoa City Police (Dong Nai) said that this is a very large-scale case.
"It is estimated that there are tens of thousands of people who buy certificates of unemployment and receive social insurance tosocial security fraudup to several hundred billion dong",This person said. Due to the complexity of the case, the authorities are currently consolidating the case file to clarify the actions of some clinic owners.
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Long Binh Tan General Clinic. |
Bien Hoa City Police coordinated with police from several wards and communes in the area to simultaneously inspect and search many clinics in the wards of Tan Hiep, Long Binh, Long Binh Tan, Trang Dai, Buu Long...
The search of medical examination and treatment facilities is to investigate signs of buying and selling of documents and records related to medical examination and treatment such as: health certificates, medical records...
At Tam Duc General Clinic (Tan Hiep Ward) and My Duc International General Clinic (Long Binh Ward), the authorities searched and worked with the clinic owners to verify the implementation of the medical examination process at these facilities.
In addition, the police also took statements from medical staff, seized all machinery and documents related to medical examination and treatment at this facility to serve the investigation.
In some clinics, there has been a situation of falsely confirming that workers are sick to receive social insurance (SI).
Accordingly, workers coming to the clinic will be given a certificate of leave with social insurance, which will be used as a basis to send to the company to have the insurance pay 75% of their salary.
Dong Nai police have set up a special project to monitor clinics and medical treatment facilities for many days, and have detained a number of medical staff working at clinics in the area to clarify the act of profiting from social insurance.