23 Apr, 2020 @ 17:45
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Fake doctor in Spain arrested for trying to con health workers into buying non-existent protective gear

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A MAN in Spain has been arrested for allegedly posing as a doctor and trying to con health workers into paying for non-existent protective clothing.

Playing on fears that PPE might run out in the midst of the coronavirus pandemic, he donned a medical uniform and had a forged ID card which he used to enter a hospital in Madrid.

He was caught at a police checkpoint when officers found the uniform and medical ID card in a bag he was carrying.

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CON: Fake doctor tried to get cash from medical workers.

This was in his name but fraudulently showed him to be a specialist immunologist at the hospital.

Suspicious officers confirmed the ID was fake and an investigation was started. This showed that he had been seen several times in the hospital where he had contacted health professionals.

They said he had been asking them for cash in order to buy personal protection equipment.

Police found that he was acting with another young man, who was also pretending to be a doctor and who has not yet been identified. Investigators say the detainee has a record for fraud.

The investigation continues.

Dilip Kuner

Dilip Kuner is a NCTJ-trained journalist whose first job was on the Folkestone Herald as a trainee in 1988.
He worked up the ladder to be chief reporter and sub editor on the Hastings Observer and later news editor on the Bridlington Free Press.
At the time of the first Gulf War he started working for the Sunday Mirror, covering news stories as diverse as Mick Jagger’s wedding to Jerry Hall (a scoop gleaned at the bar at Heathrow Airport) to massive rent rises at the ‘feudal village’ of Princess Diana’s childhood home of Althorp Park.
In 1994 he decided to move to Spain with his girlfriend (now wife) and brought up three children here.
He initially worked in restaurants with his father, before rejoining the media world in 2013, working in the local press before becoming a copywriter for international firms including Accenture, as well as within a well-known local marketing agency.
He joined the Olive Press as a self-employed journalist during the pandemic lock-down, becoming news editor a few months later.
Since then he has overseen the news desk and production of all six print editions of the Olive Press and had stories published in UK national newspapers and appeared on Sky News.

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