A HEALTH Ministry employee has been provisionally detained for allegedly forging a medical report, the Public Prosecution has announced.
The woman, whose age and nationality were not disclosed, reportedly entered false information into the ministry’s electronic system, claiming that an individual had been reviewed by medical committees, was medically unfit and should be referred for retirement.
The report was then sent to the Social Insurance Organisation (SIO) for approval and to initiate the retirement process, enabling the individual to unlawfully receive a pension.
A probe was launched, ministry employees heard and the SIO appointed a forensic expert to examine and compare the report with the suspect’s handwriting.
The expert concluded that the document had been forged by the suspect who was questioned and confronted with the evidence.
The woman confessed to forging the report, with the prosecution ordering her pretrial detention, pending further investigations.
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