New charges against family doctor for fake corona certificates
Justice In mid-June, the Dresden Regional Court sentenced a family doctor to prison for issuing false corona certificates. It involved 1,000 cases – but there are more.
Published on 16.08.2024
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Entrance to the Dresden Regional Court. Photo: Robert Michael/dpa
A good two months after her conviction for forged corona certificates, the Dresden public prosecutor’s office has again filed charges against a family doctor from Moritzburg. They suspect the doctor of issuing a further 349 of these “incorrect health certificates” in November 2021 and January 2022. The investigative authority classifies 167 cases as “particularly serious”. She is said to have made around 17,000 euros with the so-called favor certificates.
The 67-year-old is accused of having “blanketly and wrongly” attested to patients in her practice or at two group appointments in Moosburg and Ottenburg in Upper Bavaria that they were not allowed to wear a mask, that there was an unlimited ban on vaccinations of any kind, or that corona tests were only possible via saliva for medical reasons. In most cases, there was no prior perception of the physical condition of the recipients, and neither anamnesis or examination nor clarification of medical findings. The Dresden Regional Court must now decide on the admission of the charges and a date for the main hearing.
In a first trial there, the woman was sentenced to two years and eight months in prison in mid-June for forged corona certificates in around 1,000 cases for a total of almost 48,000 euros. The appeals by the prosecution and defense are still ongoing. The judges were convinced that she had attested to lifelong exemption from wearing a mask and rapid tests using a nasal/throat swab as well as an unlimited ban on vaccinations at five collective appointments across the country.
They certified that she had acted with “high criminal energy” and imposed a three-year professional ban, but suspended the arrest warrant on condition that she report the crime. The woman was thus released after almost 16 months in custody – until the verdict becomes final.
