A fraudster had been found GUILTY of posing as a qualified doctor for over twenty years and being paid over £1 million by the NHS after forging a degree certificate. Zholia Alemi, who is believed to be 60, forged the document, along with a letter of verification and handed it to the General Medical Council, the public body responsible for maintaining the official register of general practitioners in the UK.
Alemi, of Burnley, who is already convicted of fraud ‘held herself out and practised as a doctor of medicine’, though she had never passed or achieved the relevant university qualification and was not a properly qualified doctor.
“She is, say the prosecution, a most accomplished forger and fraudster, but has no qualification that would allow her to be called, or in any way to be properly regarded as, a doctor,” Mr Stables said.
