BEIRUT: Financial Prosecutor judge Ali Ibrahim filed a lawsuit Monday against two suspects accused of fraud and embezzlement of health ministry funds.
Media reports said one of the defendants, who is in police custody, was charged with forging documents, signatures and stamps to secure drugs and medicine from the Ministry of Health.
The two suspects were referred to First Investigative Judge in the Bekaa Imad al-Zein, the reports said.
The Health Ministry, which has embarked on a campaign to stamp out food corruption led by Minister Wael Abu Faour, had busted one of its employees last August for signing fake bills allowing a hospital in Hermel to exploit public insurance funds.
The culprit, a physician employed by the Health Ministry to audit hospital bills and verify their authenticity, was bribed to allow the hospital to inflate their bills and thus increase the returns they would get from the National Social Security Fund and the Health Ministry.
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