'Popular' GP is jailed after stealing £1.1m to pay for gambling habit
A senior GP was today jailed for three years and four months after stealing a staggering £1.1million of money to fund his ‘desperate’ addiction to online gambling. Rumi Chhapia, 45, was a ‘popular and respected’ doctor before he stole the funds from a healthcare group in 65 transfers over a 41-day period in 2020, to pay off his debts playing slot machines and roulette. The money was taken from Portsmouth Primary Care Alliance Limited (PPCA), a healthcare group he founded,…