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More than 100 attempts to deceive with false vaccination certificates

2021-10-23T06:29:17.219Z


More freedom without vaccination - in order to achieve this, people keep trying to obtain digital vaccination certificates from pharmacies. Many cases remain undetected - also because checking vaccination records is not easy.


More freedom without vaccination - in order to achieve this, people keep trying to obtain digital vaccination certificates from pharmacies.

Many cases remain undetected - also because checking vaccination records is not easy.

Stuttgart - Time and again, people in pharmacies in the southwest try to obtain digital corona vaccination certificates without a vaccination. "The cases seem to be increasing," said the deputy managing director of the State Pharmacists' Association (LAV), Frank Eickmann, in Stuttgart. “This is how the police reflect us.” According to the State Office of Criminal Investigation (LKA) Baden-Württemberg, the number of reported cases is currently “in the lower three-digit range”. Because of the low values, it is currently not possible to say with certainty whether the numbers have recently increased or decreased.

"There will be a certain number of unreported cases," said LAV spokesman Eickmann. "In such cases there is no obligation for pharmacies to register." The main problem with issuing digital vaccination certificates is that vaccination cards are not forgery-proof. “There are no security features like a watermark,” said Eickmann. In addition, the data would not be updated: If someone marries or moves, the information on the vaccination book could differ from that on the identity card, which must also be presented.

"What remains is that the pharmacies check to the best of their knowledge and belief," said Eickmann. The stamps of general practitioners' practices would be scrutinized as closely as the batch numbers of the vaccines. "It is also not uncommon for vaccination cards not to contain a single entry other than two corona vaccinations," said Eickmann. Then the document will also be examined more closely. “In the end, however, we have no final protection against counterfeiting,” said Eickmann.

Most recently, the police had reported suspected cases of falsified vaccination certificates from Weil am Rhein (Lörrach district) and Mengen (Sigmaringen district), among others.

A total of five men and one woman tried to obtain digital vaccination certificates in pharmacies.

In both cases, the employees were puzzled.

According to the police, quantities of vaccine were entered in the vaccination books of the two men that were not injected at all at the vaccination center.

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In such cases, it was “predominantly” individual perpetrators who trusted in a “low risk of discovery”, said an LKA spokesman.

"Criminal and civil law consequences are deliberately accepted here." Anyone who forges vaccination cards can therefore end up in court for using incorrect documentation or forgery of documents.

Depending on the type of case, investigations into bodily harm are also possible, said the LKA.

The consequences of a conviction could face fines or several years in prison.

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Source: merkur

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