A 54-year-old psychiatrist from the center of the country was arrested by the police on suspicion of distributing fraudulent and illegal prescriptions for narcotic drugs for hundreds of shekels.

The suspect used to prescribe fraudulent and illegal medical prescriptions for narcotic drugs and distribute them to anyone who demanded them for hundreds of shekels that he pocketed without justification or medical need.

The psychiatrist was sent to house arrest by Friday and was barred from practicing medicine until Thursday next week.