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A woman has been accused of forging a person’s medical report to make him eligible for retirement and pension.
The Public Prosecution yesterday said the suspect, identified as a Health Ministry employee, would go on trial following the completion of investigations.
She allegedly fabricated a report on one of the patients and entered it into the ministry’s database. She falsely indicated that he had been examined by a medical panel, deemed medically incapacitated and referred for retirement.
She sent the document to the Social Insurance Organisation (SIO) to have it approved so that the individual could retire and start receiving a pension.
The Public Prosecution, however, received a report on the woman and launched an investigation.
It collected testimonies from several employees at the Health Ministry and the SIO.
A forgery and counterfeiting expert was also appointed from the Directorate of Forensic Science Evidence to examine the document and compare it with the suspect’s handwriting.
The expert’s report confirmed that the statement was forged.
Investigators questioned the defendant and confronted her with the evidence.
She ended up confessing to forging the statement, the Public Prosecution said.
She was placed in pretrial detention and referred for trial at the High Criminal Court, where she will face charges relating to entering, altering and forging data and official documents using the system.
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