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Zholia Alemi: How the bogus psychiatrist who stole over a MILLION from the NHS went undetected for so long

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Sitting in the imposing glass dock of Manchester Crown Court, Zholia Alemi held her head in her hands and wept. Once she was a high-flying psychiatrist, working in the health service for over twenty years, helping hundreds of patients up and down the country - but it was all based on a lie.

The accomplished fraudster owned multiple properties, collected expensive bottles of Champagne and drove a red Lotus sports car. READ MORE: Woman who posed as doctor for over twenty YEARS jailed as judge blasts 'abject failure of scrutiny' She even became a consultant and was approved under section 12 of the Mental Health Act, bestowing upon her the power to bring about the detention of patients against their will and prescribe powerful drugs.

But, it was a brazenly and blatantly home-crafted degree certificate, uncovered by an investigative journalist from Cumbria, which unravelled her deceit and resulted in her conviction of multiple offences of fraud and forgery.

Today (February 28) she is starting her seven-year stretch in prison. It was 2016 when a carer reported concerns about Alemi, who was working as a locum psychiatrist at the time in Cumbria.

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