In official communications about the actions of a “false doctor” who deceived patients with multiple sclerosisafter convincing them to stop taking the medication they were following, EL.AS continued.

A “false doctor” in collaboration with an elderly doctor from Germany is accused of deceiving patients with serious health problems, as a result of which five of them died.

The case was solved after a long and thorough investigation by members of the Department of Criminal Prosecution of Criminal Organizations and Transnational Affairs of the Organized Crime and Trafficking in Persons Directorate of the Thessaloniki Security Directorate.

The two men, aged 66 and 72, are charged with murder, fraud, whistleblowing, medical impersonation and money laundering.

To date, at least 15 cases of deception of patients with multiple sclerosis, as well as other neurological diseases, have been registered, and 5 of them ended in the past tense.

Their activities started at least from 2009 and continued until November 2020 and they are located in Thessaloniki and other regions of Greece such as Athens, Corfu and Chios.

In particular, a 66-year-old man, using medical titles and specialties that he did not possess, presented himself to his victims as a physiotherapist or neurologist, and in some cases used his real abilities as a physiotherapist, and accordingly his foreign accomplice, who is a general practitioner, He introduced himself as a geneticist or a neurologist.

Together, the two perpetrators falsely presented to patients and their relatives that they had the necessary special scientific knowledge and training, and promised the unattainable, that is, a complete cure, or at least a spectacular improvement in their health, if they agreed to follow the proposed treatment. with peptides and stem cells.

To convince patients of the effectiveness of the treatment, they reported that it was precisely because it was so effective that it was against the interests of pharmaceutical companies, that it was used by famous people such as politicians, artists and athletes, even going as far as possible to put under doubt already diagnosed diseases.

In addition, they persuaded their victims to go to Germany for a special examination, while the costs were fully covered by the patients.

Immediately after this, a personal examination by a foreign doctor was carried out, in which the patients were shown the benefits of the proposed treatment and, after obtaining permission to begin treatment, they were given a subcutaneous injection.

Subsequently, upon his return to Greece, the 66-year-old man undertook to administer injections to the patients’ relatives at his direction.

Depending on the financial capacity of the patients, vials of peptides cost from 200 to 300 euros per dose, and injections of stem cells cost from 10,000 to 25,000 euros per dose.

It is worth noting that some patients were advised by their physicians to stop taking their medications in order for the peptide and stem cell treatments to work. This led to a deterioration in their health, and in some cases it is believed that we contributed to the hastening of the death of the patient.

Within the framework of International Police Cooperation in both Greece and Germany, searches were carried out in homes and clinics by the relevant German authorities, during which they seized, inter alia:

• Vials of drugs that, after laboratory testing, turned out to be non-medical.
• Folders with patient names that contained medical tests.
• 1 stun gun with magazine and rocket launcher.
• 1 right.
• The amount is 1850 euros.

The total monetary benefit that criminals have so far received from their criminal activities is approximately 900,000 euros.