Fifth person arrested for certificate scam

Wednesday, 20 October 2021 06:03

A fifth person has been arrested as part of an investigation into the selling of Covid certificates at the Clinique des Grangettes in Geneva.

Four are already in custody.

Police say the man is in his thirties and worked with the civil protection office at the same vaccination centre.

The group is accused of selling the certificates for CHF 400 each.

The illegal passes remain valid as there’s no way to separate them in the system from the genuine ones.

The clinic was not involved in the alleged scam.

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