According to AP News, a 60years old German man reportedly had himself vaccinated 90 times “in order to sell forged vaccination cards with real vaccine batch numbers to people not wanting to get vaccinated themselves”.
He was caught at a vaccination center in Eilenburg in Saxony when he showed up for a COVID-19 shot for the second day in a row. Police confiscated several blank vaccination cards from him and initiated criminal proceedings.
– AP News
This news got wide media coverage including the Business Insider, which writes, citing DW “each time the man entered a vaccination site, he would bring a blank vaccination card. After getting a shot, he would remove the page with the batch number and sell it to people who didn’t want a vaccine themselves”.
Business Insider writes:
- A man is suspected of receiving more than 87 COVID-19 shots, German media have reported.
- This reportedly gave him real vaccine batch numbers that he could put on fake certificates.
- Criminal investigations are ongoing in the east German state of Saxony, per German media reports.
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- Man in Germany gets 90 COVID-19 shots to sell forged passes
- A German man is suspected of getting more than 87 COVID-19 shots so he could sell fake vaccination certificates
The suspect was reportedly got caught at Eilenburg Red Cross vaccination center when he entered the center second day in a row.
German police reportedly confiscated blank Covid vaccine cards from him and have initiated criminal proceedings.
“It’s not immediately clear if the vaccines, from multiple brands, have impacted his own health,” writes the Business Insider.
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