A DOCTOR who forged Covid-19 test results for his wife and another individual has been jailed for three years.
Court documents revealed that the 31-year-old Bahraini doctor falsified the results in November last year in collaboration with an unsuspecting employee at Bahrain International Airport (BIA) Police Directorate.
The doctor submitted false Covid-19 test results for his wife and another individual upon their arrival at the airport during a period when testing was mandatory for arriving passengers.
Investigations confirmed that the doctor had presented the test results as official certificates, saying that he had personally conducted the tests as he was a practising physician.
He also provided personal data of the two individuals to another employee who printed the stickers.
However, he placed fabricated samples into the test tubes and examination boxes thereby allowing the two individuals to enter Bahrain without undergoing the actual test.
He was found guilty of the charges by the High Criminal Court yesterday.
“The defendant was informed by his wife that she and her colleague, who were on a business trip abroad, were suffering from similar Covid-19 symptoms,” read the court ruling.
“The doctor then told his wife not to worry and that he would handle her travel back to Bahrain.
“He then falsified the results for his wife and her colleague.”
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