JOHOR BAHARU: Police busted a fake medical certificate (MC) selling syndicate with the arrest of a photo shop owner in Taman Ungku Tun Aminah, here, last Friday.
Johor Police chief Datuk Mohd Mokhtar Mohd Shariff said the 35-year-old suspect was arrested around 1.30pm following a tip-off from sources and further checks at the premises, police found various fake MCs.
“We also found several materials believed to have been used to make the MCs including computers, printers, A4 papers and 13 doctor stamps,” he told reporters here yesterday and added the syndicate had been operating since last year and sold the MC for RM25 each including to locals who worked in Singapore.
Mohd Mokhtar said the suspect only provided the MC and doctor’s stamp while the patients would fill in their information and date of leave after they bought it.
He added that upon inspection, six of the 13 stamps were using the name of medical officers who were still working in government hospitals in this town while seven of the names had already moved to other hospitals.
“We would investigate this case under Section 468 and Section 471 of the Penal Code,” said Mohd Mokhtar.
In other cases, he said, police received a report from Johor FC Club Secretary regarding a football match that had been fixed during a match against Perlis in the President Cup round, in Pasir Gudang Stadium, last Thursday. — Bernama