Tax payers in Cyprus have paid over €61 million to date for fast and PCR coronavirus assessments in a bid by the state to include its unfold.
Nonetheless, some designated medical laboratories tried to get in a fraudulent manner an extra €400,000 from the state from what they had been entitled to.
That is what Well being Ministry Everlasting Secretary Christina Yiannaki on Thursday advised the Home Audit Committee.
She defined that some lab house owners had been really ‘bullying’ the Ministry to receives a commission regardless that the invoices had not been totally reviewed. And that after the thorough evaluation the quantity of 400,000 needed to be deducted.
“It isn’t the primary time the general public sector has fallen sufferer to tried fraud,” she stated.
“We nonetheless keep in mind the case of the cell unit finishing up Covid-19 assessments within the coronary heart of Limassol metropolis in addition to in its port space and in a mountainous group throughout the district. And all on the similar time,” she added.