Four people from the North East have been slapped with charges after a joint National Crime Agency (NCA) and NHS England probe uncovered a massive fake Covid vaccine passport racket.
Crackdown on Fraudulent Vaccine Passports
The NCA revealed that Christopher Thompson, 36, from Horden; Shahid Hussain, 33, from Middlesbrough; Ian Taylor, 42; and Abbey-Leigh Coates, 25, both from Darlington, were arrested between early 2022 and 2023. They are accused of creating and selling bogus COVID-19 vaccination records during the pandemic.
The scam involved faking a whopping 1,168 vaccine records from June 2021 to January 2022. Some of these fake certificates were even produced at a health centre in Darlington.
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