Photo shop owner forged more than 100 Covid-19 vaccination certificates
Mr. Pham confessed that he took a genuine copy of a Covid-19 vaccination certificate from a local resident, then erased the information, forged it, and sold it to people in need for 4,000 VND/copy.
On September 9, the Criminal Police Team of Bien Hoa City Police, Dong Nai Province detained Mr. Nguyen Xuan Pham (born in 1955), owner of Cong Vi photocopy shop in Binh Da ward, to investigate the act of forging documents of agencies and organizations...
Through inspection by Binh Da Ward Police at the above photocopy shop, 135 were discovered.certificatevaccinated against Covid-19 with the red stamp of Binh Da Ward Health Station; 3 travel permits issued by Bien Hoa City Police with the names of the people but without the red stamp and 3 travel permits issued by the Provincial Traffic Police Department with the red stamp.
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| The travel document was forged by Mr. Pham. |
Police continued to check the computers at this facility and discovered many more travel permit sample files from the Department of Administrative Management of Social Order, Dong Nai Provincial Police and Bien Hoa City Police.
Identifying these as fake documents from the authorities, the police proceeded to investigate and Mr. Nguyen Xuan Pham admitted that the above documents were forged by himself with the purpose of reselling them to people who needed to go through epidemic control checkpoints.
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| Mr. Pham - photocopy shop owner. |
Initially, Mr. Pham confessed that he took a genuine copy of a Covid-19 vaccination certificate from a local resident, then erased the information, forged it, and sold it to people in need for 4,000 VND/copy.
As for the travel permit, Mr. Pham stated that he had previously been provided with it by an unknown person who had hired him to print multiple copies. Taking advantage of that, Mr. Pham continued to print and sell them.
