ABW arrest more doctors involved in social security scams

The Internal Security Agency (ABW) yesterday arrested four doctors from the Świętokrzyskie voivodship's Social Insurance Office (ZUS) as a result of an investigation related to issuing fake disability statements. This was a second wave of arrests, as earlier in April the Agency arrested ten people involved in same crime in Kielce, Starachowice, and Skarżysk. The suspects are charged of acting as intermediaries in the process that led to the illegal claiming of benefits and allowances from ZUS. The ABW estimates that around 60 people could have been involved in the crime which cost the Social Insurance Office around zł.1 million. (Gazeta Wyborcza, p. 5) A.K.