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Cyber police eliminates scheme of making fake COVID certificates in Cherkasy region
KYIV. Sept 27 (Interfax-Ukraine) – Cyber police officers have eliminated the scheme of obtaining international certificates of vaccination against COVID-19 without going through the procedure, which was organized in Cherkasy region by 32-year-old family medicine doctor together with her 48-year-old acquaintance who acted as an intermediary.
According to the Cyber Police Department of the National Police of Ukraine on Monday, the figurants offered citizens in messengers to receive an international certificate, for UAH 5,000 the health worker promised to enter information about the alleged vaccination in corresponding electronic registers. "The woman deliberately made mistakes when entering customer data. As a result, the medical certificate was not generated in the Diia application, and the medical worker issued paper COVID certificates, certified by her own seal," the message says.
Criminal proceedings have been opened under Part 3 of Article 362 of the Criminal Code of Ukraine (unauthorized actions with information processed in computers, automated systems, computer networks or stored on media committed by a person entitled to access), the sanction of which provides for up to six years in prison with deprivation of the right to engage in certain activities for up to three years. An investigation is underway.
Authorized searches were carried out at homes of the offenders and at the doctor’s office, as a result of which seals, copies of documents and medical declarations, bank cards, mobile phones, and the issued COVID certificates were seized. Now law enforcement officers are identifying the persons who used the services of the defendants.
