Woman who posed as doctor for over twenty YEARS jailed as judge blasts 'abject failure of scrutiny'

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A fake psychiatrist has been jailed after forging a fake degree certificate and submitting it to the General Medical Council who have since admitted that ‘rigorous checks’ were not carried out.

Zholia Alemi, who is believed to be in her 60s, forged the document, along with a letter of verification and handed it to the GMC, the public body responsible for maintaining the official register of general practitioners in the UK.

Alemi, 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. READ MORE: Fraudster fleeced her grandad out of £75,000 in 'unpleasant, mean and destructive' B&Q con Prosecutors described her as ‘the most accomplished fraudster’.

After being found guilty of 20 offences including forgery, using a false instrument and fraud, she was jailed for seven years.