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Armenia's medical universities became internationally notorious in 2018, when Israel arrested dozens of doctors and pharmacists suspected of buying degrees fro…
📍 Yerevan, Armenia
Ain Shams University's medical faculty is one of Egypt's oldest and largest, which is why its name was useful to a man who, according to Egyptian authorities, …
📍 Ain Shams University Faculty of Medicine, Cairo, Egypt
Germany's Approbation, the state licence to practise, is the document every hospital asks for, and it is the document the country's false doctors have forged. …
📍 Osnabrück, Germany
Most of the forged diplomas on this site were produced the old way, with stationery, seals and a printer. In July 2025 police in Normandy arrested a man who ha…
📍 Caen, France
France registers doctors through the Ordre des médecins and runs an online register, and the cases of 2025 show that the register is mostly consulted after the…
📍 Marseille, France
Chile requires foreign-trained doctors to pass a national examination, the EUNACOM, before they can work in the public system, and maintains a register through…
📍 Santiago, Chile
Guatemala prosecutes impersonation of a professional as usurpación de calidad, and in 2025 its prosecutors used the charge twice in three months against men po…
📍 Guatemala City, Guatemala
Venezuela's collapse has emptied its hospitals of doctors, and the gap has been filled in part by people who are not doctors at all. In 2022 the country's pres…
📍 Caracas, Venezuela (Bolivarian Republic of)
Mexico issues a cédula profesional, a national professional licence number, for every registered degree, and keeps it in a public register. An earlier case on …
📍 Tuxtla Gutiérrez, Mexico
Switzerland recognises foreign medical diplomas through a federal commission, MEBEKO, and lists recognised doctors in a public register. In 2025 a case in Aarg…
📍 Aargau, Switzerland
Greece has produced three of the more striking false-doctor cases in Europe, over three decades, and together they map the ways an impostor gets in. According …
📍 Athens, Greece
Oman is a smaller Gulf employer of foreign health workers than its neighbours, and its cases are correspondingly smaller, but they show the same two layers of …
📍 Muscat, Oman
Bahrain is a small health market with a strict regulator, the National Health Regulatory Authority, and in 2026 its parliament decided the penalties for practi…
📍 Manama, Bahrain
Qatar's Ministry of Public Health licenses every health practitioner in the country, and it publishes what it does with the ones who lie to it. According to Gu…
📍 Doha, Qatar
Saudi Arabia employs tens of thousands of foreign-trained health workers, and its regulators have, over the past decade, become among the most demanding verifi…
📍 Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
Jordan trains large numbers of doctors, exports many of them to the Gulf, and recognises specialist qualifications through the Jordan Medical Council. That cou…
📍 Amman, Jordan
Rwanda is a small country with a centralised state and a reputation for administrative order, which makes its own figures on forged qualifications a useful ben…
📍 Kigali, Rwanda
The simplest way to pass a registry check is to be, on paper, someone who is already on the registry. A Kampala case from late 2024 shows how that works and ho…
📍 Kampala, Uganda
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