In Ukraine, fraud involving various social benefits or the sale of non-existent goods is very common, but in Nepal, the police exposed guides who deliberately poisoned tourists in order to make money on insurance.
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The Independent reports that guides on Mount Everest secretly laced food with substances to arrange costly evacuations of people who had allegedly fallen ill. Police are investigating a case of fraud involving nearly $20 million in payments from international insurance companies.
32 people were charged and 11 arrests were made. According to police, more than 300 cases of alleged fake rescues of climbers were identified. The scheme involved Sherpas, owners of trekking companies, helicopter operators and medical facility management.
It is reported that the guides used various substances that stimulated the stomach upsets commonly associated with altitude sickness. When tourists complained of health problems, they were advised to descend and agree to an expensive emergency helicopter evacuation. The participants in the scheme then used forged medical and flight documents to claim reimbursement from international insurers.
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During the “rescue operations,” costs were inflated, for example, billing each helicopter passenger as if a personal helicopter had been dispatched to pick them up. And hospitals created false reports of hospitalization and treatment — in some cases for tourists who did not actually receive medical care.
Read the article “When the truth becomes a defendant: a volunteer who exposed a fraudulent “drone pyramid” worth 50 million received a summons to court” on our website.
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