Doctor in Luxembourg Treated Patients Despite Fraud & Disciplinary Issues
A physician previously barred from practicing medicine is once again seeing patients in Luxembourg City, despite a history of professional misconduct and financial crimes revealed by investigations from Reporter.lu. Dr. Waël Naeseh, 61, opened a practice on Rue du Fossé in the Oberstadt district, less than two years after Luxembourg’s Health Minister revoked his medical license.
The revocation, issued on June 3, 2024, stemmed from concerns over Naeseh’s “respectability and moral integrity,” according to the Minister’s justification. Naeseh had failed to disclose ongoing disciplinary and criminal proceedings against him when applying for his Luxembourg medical license. Specifically, he did not reveal a disciplinary case in France involving allegations of gross negligence leading to the death of an unborn child, nor did he disclose the suspension of his French medical license in June 2023 related to the same case.
However, the initial 18-month suspension imposed by Health Minister Martine Deprez (CSV) was later overturned, allowing Naeseh to resume practicing in Luxembourg by the end of 2025.
The case extends beyond France. Investigations by Reporter.lu uncovered a prior conviction in Switzerland for large-scale fraud. In November 2022, a Swiss court of appeal sentenced Naeseh to a three-year prison term, with half suspended, for professional fraud, forgery of documents, and falsification of medical certificates. The court also prohibited him from issuing medical documents valid in Switzerland for two years and expelled him from the country for five years. A final appeal to the Swiss Federal Court was rejected in December 2023, making the conviction final.
According to the Swiss court’s written judgment, Naeseh, a French citizen of Syrian origin, allegedly obtained nearly three million Swiss francs in unjustified payments from insurance companies between 2013 and 2016. The fraud involved inflating invoices for services rendered or billing for services never provided at his practices in Geneva and Montreux. The court found that, “in order to prevent patients from realizing the benefits he was wrongly billing, he deliberately omitted to transmit to them a copy of the invoices he addressed to insurers.”
Dr. Naeseh had previously established and subsequently closed several medical practices in both Switzerland and France within a roughly ten-year period prior to seeking to practice in Luxembourg.
As of Wednesday, March 25, 2026, Dr. Naeseh continues to practice in Luxembourg City. The Luxembourg medical council is scheduled to review his case on April 9, 2025, according to reporting from Le Courrier de Mantes, but the outcome of that review remains pending.