Remember: at the end of November, the Walloon Minister of Health Christie Morreale had revealed the existence of a dubious practice on the part of a doctor from Liège. The latter had provided more than 2,000 vaccination certificates all over Walloon territory. Given the geographic scope and the number of certificates, the AViQ (the Agency for a Quality Life) had filed a complaint with a civil action.
Arrested, the Liege emergency doctor admitted the facts once morest him before the examining magistrate. According to our information, these CSTs were provided in exchange for remuneration between 200 and 350 euros / part. But as L’Avenir relays, a witness for his part advances an amount of up to 1,500 euros. The Charleroi prosecutor’s office had however refused to give more details on the practices of the doctor, who found himself indicted and placed under arrest warrant for three counts: false computer, computer fraud and attack on a computer system. He had been placed in preventive detention.
Our colleagues from L’Avenir revealed on Monday that the Mons indictments chamber confirmed the decision to extend this preventive detention by one month. The doctor’s lawyer had pleaded for conditional release, but this appeal was therefore not heard. The individual remains in prison for the time being.
Note that in addition to legal sanctions (for this type of act, the accused risks up to 5 years in prison), the doctor also risks professional sanctions. The visa (issued by the FPS Public Health and which is the authorization to practice) can be withdrawn or suspended, even preventively. At the time of the arrest, the Order of Physicians, informed of the facts, had announced that its response would be “firm”. Philippe Bocho, the vice-president, had judged the behavior of the doctor “unworthy of the profession” and assured that an internal investigation would be opened. The fraudulent doctor also lost his access to Vaccinet, a system that allows doctors and vaccination centers to encode vaccinated people.