An
impostor psychiatrist
was caught and sentenced to jail for fraud after it was proven that
he practiced medicine
for 20 years under a "true" title
in times of mental health.
As if that were not enough, she became rich and came to earn
1.3 million dollars in salary.
the fake professional
treated patients for two decades in the
United Kingdom's National Health Service (NHS)
despite having no real qualifications in his specific field, and at a court hearing presented false documents, reflects
The Mirror.
Who is Zholia Alemi, the fake psychiatrist
Zholia Alemi
was jailed for seven years by Manchester Crown Court on Tuesday as it was heard her "deliberate dishonesty" did not come to light until it was
investigated by a journalist rather than police.
Zholia Alemi, the trout psychiatrist who became rich.
At the same time, the General Medical Council (GMC, for its acronym in English) was also criticized for
not having carried out
stricter controls on the imposter psychiatrist, since it is the registration to be able to work as a doctor in the United Kingdom.
Alemi claimed to have a
degree from the University of Auckland in New Zealand
, but was found guilty earlier this month of forging the certificate and verification letter she used to register in 1995.
A judge was forceful with Alemi, remarking that his deception struck "very deeply at the heart of health care provisions in the country."
Alemi claimed to have a degree from the University of Auckland in New Zealand.
Judge
Hilary Manley
said: "That they have accepted the degree certificate and the letter of endorsement represents an abject failure of scrutiny."
"You benefited from that failure and, of course, from your own deliberate and calculated dishonesty," he concluded.
A journalist unmasked the trout psychiatrist
Alemi was
investigated by journalist Phil Coleman
, who began digging into her background and discovered that she had never earned the degree.
Coleman was forced to investigate her record after she was first jailed in 2018 for
attempting to falsify an elderly patient's will and powers of attorney.
Alemi was convicted of 13 counts of fraud.
The court was "concerned" by the apparent inconsistency over a GMC statement that documents from the 1990s
were not subject to today's "rigorous scrutiny
. "
That is why he demanded an "exhaustive, open and transparent" investigation into how the defendant could present "so clearly false documents" and why it took a journalist instead of a professional government body to discover the truth, the British portal expands.
The beginnings of the scammer
Alemi could detain patients against their will and prescribe powerful drugs.
She moved around the country
to different posts to make sure she didn't stay in one place too long and arouse suspicion.
Prosecutor Christopher Stables recounted that
Alemi was born in Iran, but in the early 1990s was in Auckland
, where he was unable to complete the degree in medicine, degree in surgery required to practice as a doctor, and was denied permission to reside.
Alemi, born in Iran, immigrated to England and was moving around the country.
In 1995 he was in the UK, where he forged a degree certificate and verification letter, he admitted.
“Those forged documents were used by the defendant and sent to the GMC in the UK in support of her application for registration as a doctor,” he recounts.
The court heard that she was registered with and
worked for both NHS trusts and private providers
across the UK, earning an estimated £1.3 million.
It is also unclear how old Alemi was, as
three different dates of birth
appear in the documents ranging from 55 to 60 years old.
Conviction and charges
First the Carlisle crown court in 2018
had convicted her of three counts of fraud and one count of theft
in connection with the attempted forgery of power of attorney.
Manchester Crown Court.
Alemi, of Plumbe Street in Burnley, was ultimately convicted of
13 counts of fraud
, three counts of obtaining pecuniary advantage by deceit, two counts of forgery and two counts of using a false instrument after a four-week trial.
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