Today, the regional court in Brno, by reading documentary evidence and questioning a witness, continued to discuss the indictment against Robert Littera, who, according to the public prosecutor, fraudulently withdrew almost 23 million crowns from the Health Insurance Company of the Ministry of the Interior of the Czech Republic over 13 years. He had non-existent patient transports reimbursed. The man completely denies the guilt. Money flowed from the insurance company between 2007 and 2020, the defendant stated that he was not aware of anything until the fall of 2021, when he had to leave the insurance company. He said this in a preliminary hearing, the transcript of which was read earlier by the judge.
The judge assumed that the final motions and decisions could eventually be heard today, but the defendant Littera excused himself from the hearing due to health problems. In addition, the parties have submitted other evidentiary motions to the court. However, the president of the senate warned them again that the next time the final proposals could be heard.
Today, the president of the senate read some documentary evidence, he also heard a witness, and that is because of the post box he has set up. In 2016 and beyond, some documents of the First non-state rescue service could go to it, as the same mailbox was used by the company founded a little earlier. But the witness stated that nothing that was not intended for him went into the mailbox.
According to the indictment, Littera used the above-standard authorization in the information system of the health insurance company to intentionally create fictitious transports of dead insured persons, upload them to the information system and then revise them himself. This enabled the reimbursement of these fictitious performances. According to the reports, the patients were transported by the Brno First Non-State Rescue Service (PNSZ), which, however, ceased to exist in 2007.
The money went to the account of the second defendant, Zdeňko Kozelek, who had been the life partner of PNSZ owner Alexander Valousek since the 1980s. He died in 2016 and only then, according to his own statement, did Kozelek find out that money was going into his account. He said he didn’t take care of the accounts himself because “he didn’t understand the computer and the computer didn’t understand him”, so his partner Valoušek managed them.
Speaking to reporters earlier, Litter’s defense attorney said fraud had occurred, but he said there was no evidence that his client was behind it. He said the money paid to Litter at most slipped through the cracks among the vast amount of benefits he controlled. Littera also said that other employees of the insurance company are likely responsible for the fraud.
The main trial will continue on October 25. If found guilty, both defendants face up to many years in prison for fraud.
Source: www.tyden.cz
