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Police arrest man over B1.2m healthcare fraud

Hundreds of visits to state hospitals made over several years to obtain medicines

A police officer escorts a 58-year-old man from a hospital in Bangkok after arresting him on suspicion of fraud. (Photo: Crime Suppression Division)

Police on Friday arrested a 58-year-old man on suspicion of healthcare fraud that caused more than 1.2 million baht in damages to the National Health Security Office (NHSO).

The suspect, identified only as Sukho, was apprehended at a hospital in Ratchathewi district of Bangkok after Crime Suppression Division (CSD) investigators received a tip-off that he was about to make a hospital visit.

He was accused by the NHSO, which operates the universal health coverage scheme, of…

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