In a statement, the Ghana Police Service said the suspect was arrested on June 6, 2025, during an intelligence-led operation.

At the time of his arrest, Fredrick was dressed in a white lab coat and a stethoscope and was preparing to meet another potential victim.

Police retrieved several medical items from him, including two stethoscopes, three intravenous (IV) drips, five syringes, two sample bottles, a roll of plaster, six bottles of vaccines, and an amount of GH¢8,500 in cash.

During interrogation, the suspect admitted to posing as a medical doctor at the United Brain Hospital located at Mallam, a suburb of Accra.

He also confessed to using the fake identity to initiate online relationships with women, whom he later defrauded under the pretense of facilitating travel arrangements to Europe.

Fredrick is currently in police custody assisting with investigations and is expected to be arraigned soon.

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Douglas Garikayi Mutoredzanwa’s audacious attempt at impersonation came crashing down after he was caught red-handed holding an X-ray upside down while purportedly analyzing it in front of a patient.

According to The Herald, the suspect deceived a medical doctor attending to a patient, by falsely claiming to be a fellow medical doctor.

He proceeded to grab an X-ray film pretending to analyze it, despite holding it upside down. His actions raised suspicion as he made comments while misinterpreting the X-ray.

Afterwards, he abandoned the X-ray film and took two surgical blades, pethidine drugs, three syringes, cotton, cannula-sensitive tapes, and gloves.

The doctor grew weary of the suspect’s handling of the X-ray and promptly notified a loss control officer at the Hospital.

Along with security guards, the suspect was apprehended after he failed to convincingly explain his purpose at the hospital.

Appearing before Harare magistrate Dennis Mangosi, Mutoredzanwa faced charges related to impersonation and theft of medical supplies. The court took note of his previous run-ins with the law and remanded him in custody pending further proceedings.

Despite the overwhelming evidence against him, Mutoredzanwa maintained his innocence, claiming to be a nurse rather than a medical doctor.

In an interview, the hospital’s Public Relations Officer, Kwame Frimpong said the suspect was accosted on the walkway behind the A&E Centre after his responses to questions about his identity and purpose at the hospital proved unsatisfactory.

“The suspect was not found in any of the service points at the hospital but accosted at an open space and could therefore, not be said to have attended to patients as being circulated” he added.

Providing further details, Mr. Frimpong said one of the directors at the hospital was on her usual rounds when she bumped into the suspect with a backpack and a stethoscope on a walkway behind the hospital’s A&E Centre.

The suspect also had the name ‘Dr. Williams Cyril Cohen’ written on the scrub dress he was wearing.

It said when the director, questioned him about his identity and where he worked, his response was that he was only passing through the hospital to give something to somebody and quickly started to move away.

The PRO said the director become suspicious, raised an alarm and the suspect who was by then sprinting away was chased, arrested and handed over to the police.

Mr Frimpong indicated that, the hospital has a team-based system that oversees both in-patient care and OPD services and that once one is not a member of these closely-knit teams, one cannot assess or attend to patients at the various designated service points at the hospital.

“Again, the hospital has for some time now computerised its clinical operations and all patient care services are done through its Electronic Medical Records System (EMRS) accessible to only accredited members of staff using their unique passwords”, he stressed.

He gave the assurance that, no assessment, diagnosis, reviews and prescriptions can be done for patients by a non-member of staff and therefore, the claim that the suspect had attended to, and administered medications to patients before his arrest was false.

Mr. Frimpong cautioned members of the public against dealing with anybody outside the accredited service points at the hospital.

“If anybody approaches you at undesignated places like the corridor, car parks, walkways and other open spaces, with the intention of helping you access healthcare, please ignore and report that person to the nearest security guard at the hospital”, he concluded.

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Zholia Alemi, who is believed to be 60, worked in hospitals across England, Wales and Scotland and received income and benefits of more than £1m across her career, Manchester crown court heard.

On Wednesday, Alemi was found guilty of 13 counts of fraud, three counts of obtaining a pecuniary advantage by deception, two counts of forgery and two counts of using a false instrument.

The judge Hilary Manley remanded Alemi into custody and told her she would face a prison term “of some substantial length” when she is sentenced at the same court on 28 February.

She said the deception carried out against health authorities enabled Alemi to work with “potentially very vulnerable people over a long period of time.” The judge questioned how Alemi had been able to practise for as long as she had and in so many positions.

Sending a forged certificate to the General Medical Council in 1995, Alemi claimed to have qualified at the University of Auckland in New Zealand. A forged letter of verification referred to “six years medical trainee with satisfactory grade”. Yet official records showed that she completed only the first stage of the degree and was stopped from re-enrolling after failing a number of years. The court was told that in the letter of verification, the word “verify” was spelled as “varify”.

Between 1998 and 2017, Alemi worked at various health bodies and trusts, at times was employed by the NHS, and secured positions through recruitment or staffing agencies.

Christopher Stables, prosecuting, told the jury that Alemi had worked with patients across “quite literally the length and breadth of the country”. He said: “A conservative estimate, and I stress a conservative estimate, as to the quantum – so the overall amount of money fraudulently obtained by the defendant from the NHS – is somewhere, the prosecution say, between £1m and £1.3m.”

Over the four-week trial, the jury was told that Alemi had been convicted of three fraud offences at Carlisle crown court in 2018 after forging an 84-year-old woman’s will to make herself the beneficiary and forging powers of attorney.

She was sentenced to five years in prison in that case and the GMC apologised for “inadequate” checks and “any risk arising to patients as a result”.

Stables described Alemi as “a most accomplished forger and fraudster” who had “no qualification that would allow her to be called, or in any way to be properly regarded as, a doctor.”

Janice Wild, of the Crown Prosecution Service, said confiscation proceedings would be pursued aiming to recover the criminal property from which Alemi has benefited.

He is suspected to have duped hundreds of victims, every one of whom he charged GH¢230.

The self-styled medical doctor, Silas Prosper Kudiabor, 35, unemployed and resident of Kaneshie, was arrested at the Ridge Hospital in Accra by some security personnel who had laid ambush after learning about his illegal schemes.

Investigations

Briefing the Daily Graphic, the Public Relations Officer of the Accra Regional Police Command, Assistant Superintendent of Police (ASP) Mrs Afia Tenge, said some of the victims were currently assisting the police in their investigations.

She said one of the victims, whose identity is being protected by the police, claimed he had met Kudiabor at the Korle Bu Teaching Hospital where the victim’s brother was on admission on June 5, 2017.

According to Mrs Tenge, Kudiabor, on meeting the victim, introduced himself as a medical doctor and told the victim he (Kudiabor) could assist him to secure a NHIS card to help him settle the medical bills.

Kudiabor told the victim to pay GH¢230, which he claimed would help him fast-track the procedure for securing a NHIS card in three days.

Kudiabor is said to have shown the victim his office by pointing at the door of a locked office and asked the victim to meet him there anytime.

Mrs Tenge said the victim told the police that after Kudiabor had collected the money, he failed to produce the NHIS card and went into hiding.

Second victim

Another victim, she said, told the police that on June 7, 2017, Kudiabor met a taxi driver, whose identity was yet to be established, who was said to be an old schoolmate of Kudiabor’s.

During conversation between the two friends,she said, Kudiabor told his friend that he was a medical doctor who had been posted to the Ridge Hospital and a woman who overheard the conversation complained about her difficulty in securing an NHIS card.

Kudiabor told the woman that he could assist her secure an NHIS card and demanded GH¢230 from the woman.

The woman paid GH¢110 out of the GH¢230, with a promise to pay the rest later.

Kudiabor, after taking the money, promised to deliver the NHIS card to the woman at the Ridge Hospital gate but he never showed up.

Mrs Tenge said the woman, who went to the Ridge Hospital in search of Kudiabor after having waited in vain on the agreed date, reported her ordeal to the security personnel at the hospital.

She was shocked when she was told that Kudiabor was not a medical doctor at the hospital.

The security personnel, armed with the information and a description of Kudiabor, laid ambush in search of the fake doctor.

About 5 p.m. on June 9, 2017, the security officers were said to have spotted Kudiabor entering the Ridge Hospital and he was apprehended.

Following his arrest, Mrs Tenge said, Kudiabor confessed to the crime and pleaded for mercy

The suspect, Godwin Kwame Dadzawa, according to the La Police Commander, Superintendent Oduro Amaning, terminates pregnancies for young girls under life-threatening condition in a dilapidated structure.

Superintendent Oduro Amaning said the suspect was arrested upon a tip-off from a lady who had suffered some complications during a procedure at the suspect’s premises.

The operations of Dadzawa, according to the lady, has put several lives of young women in Bukom and its environs in danger.

She said his clients are admitted for at least four hours in the stuffy and unhygienic rooms after going through the abortion process before they are released to go home.

Antibiotics, painkillers, and blood tonics are administered to the victims after the abortion.

Superintendent Oduro Amaning said his outfit is processing the suspect for court as soon as possible.

But the suspect has denied the allegation that he has been parading himself as a doctor, explaining that he is a Male Nurse at a clinic in the area but people have chosen to call him doctor.

“I am not a doctor but rather a nurse, but people in this area and even the police commander in Bukom call me doctor and so I accepted that in good faith and decided to help the ladies in the area” he told Adom News’ Kwame Kulenu.

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