Doctor and wife jailed for fraud

A doctor was on Tuesday sentenced to 32 months in prison for fraud that also involved his wife, who was sentenced to two years in jail.

The Nicosia District Court found a neurosurgeon and his wife guilty of telling patients to buy a cerebral shunt, a valve to drain fluid from the brain, from the woman’s company, instead of telling them it was free under the national health scheme (Gesy).

The family of the patient was told to pay out €1,500 extra ahead of their relative’s surgery.