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France investigates crime network smuggling drugs into Egypt February 18, 2021 at 6:00 am | Published in: Africa, Egypt, Europe & Russia, France, News The entrance sign to the headquarters of France s National Health Insurance Fund on 25 August 2016 [BERTRAND GUAY/AFP via Getty Images] February 18, 2021 at 6:00 am The French National Gendarmerie announced on Tuesday the tracking down of a crime network purchasing expensive drugs with forged prescriptions at low prices, subsidised by the French National Health Insurance Fund (EHFCN), then smuggling them to Egypt to be resold for large sums. Colonel Ludovic Learhart told Agence France-Presse that the investigations into this case started more than a year ago, and led to the arrests of 15 people, most of them in France, and one in Italy. In addition to confiscating French medication worth more than €400,000, tens of thousands of euros in cash were seized. ....