A bogus psychiatrist lied over her qualifications in a “deliberate and wicked deception”. Zholia Alemi worked as a psychiatrist at a number of medical trusts across the UK after claiming to have qualified at the University of Auckland in New Zealand.
But it was a lie, Manchester Crown Court was told. And on Wednesday she was warned she faced a"substantial" prison sentence after being convicted of 13 counts of fraud, three counts of obtaining a pecuniary advantage by deception, two counts of forgery and two counts of using a false instrument, following a four-week trial.
Judge Hilary Manley remanded Alemi in custody and told her she will be sentenced at the same court on February 28. Judge Manley told her: “There is only one possible sentence and that will be a sentence of immediate custody of some substantial length.”
