A network of doctors and pharmacists in Bucharest and across the country is under investigation for illegally selling oncology drugs, affecting cancer patients.

Investigators have uncovered a fraud scheme in which doctors and pharmacists sold state-funded oncology drugs to firms in Germany. Cancer patients, instead of receiving the necessary treatments, were paid to sell them to doctors, who issued false prescriptions. The drugs, worth up to 4,000 lei, were sold at half-price abroad. Police carried out 39 raids in Bucharest and 9 counties and investigations continue.