GP struck off after stealing £1.1m from NHS to fund gambling addiction

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GP on £200,000 a year is struck off after stealing £1.1m of taxpayers' money from NHS

Rumi Chhapia, 45, entered 'desperation phase' of online gambling addiction. Court heard GP stole £1.13 million from surgery group claiming he was 'hacked'. But money was found to be sent to his account in 65 transfers over 41 days.

The father-of-one was jailed for over three years at Portsmouth Crown Court. He has now been struck off the GP register after a Medical Practitioners Tribunal. Of £1.13 million he embezzled, Chhapia paid back £238,000 and gambling companies will pay £904,000 in 'very unusual' arrangement

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