Agents of the 12th Copacabana Police Station arrested, on Saturday (22), Bruno Scott, accused of If you pass a doctor in Minas Gerais . According to delegate Ângelo Lages, the accused was found in a hotel in Copacabana, Rio de Janeiro, where he spent the weekend with friends.
At the time of prison, he was surprised, but could not resist the arrest and was sent to the police station.
The arrest was the result of police intelligence work, which crossed data to locate it. Bruno was fugitive For crimes such as illegal exercise of medicine, ideological falsehood and use of false identity. Against him, there was a warrant of custody issued by the Minas Gerais Court.
The case began in 2014, when Bruno Scott passed as a doctor and worked in two Emergency Care Units (UPAs) in São João del Rei and São Vicente de Paulo Hospital, in São Tiago, Minas Gerais. To get jobs, he Used stolen documents from a former partner which is a doctor in São Paulo. The suspect changed the photo of the identity and medical diploma to assume the identity of the professional.
“He had been related to a doctor from Sao Paulo and, after the end of the relationship, stole not only the identity of the professional, but also the diploma of medical school and went to the state of Minas Gerais. In the first duty, the staff distrusted and contacted the hospital of SP, and it was discovered that he was passing by the former partner,” explained the delegate.
The scam was discovered after a few shifts when the hospital team began to distrust their conduct. To confirm the suspicions, the institution contacted the hospital where the real doctor worked in São Paulo and discovered the fraud. The case was immediately reported to the Minas Gerais Civil Police.
During the investigations, Bruno Scott was reported by the prosecutor, but was not found to give testimony. He left Minas Gerais after being discovered and spent years living in an unknown whereabouts.
Given the situation, the court ordered its pre -trial detention in November 2023 to guarantee the progress of the process. His lawyers filed a request from habeas corpus, which was denied by the Minas Gerais Court of Justice.
Criminal history
In addition to fraud as a fake doctor, Bruno Scott also has other police passages.
In 2015, he was arrested for qualified theft and, in the same year, detained by the Federal Police for international drug trafficking. At the time, it was discovered that he brought narcotics from Paraguay to the state of São Paulo.
According to the Rio de Janeiro Civil Police, after more than a fugitive decade, the scammer is in custody and available to the courts to answer for the crimes committed.
This content was originally published in a fake doctor is arrested in Copacabana Hotel (RJ) on the CNN Brazil website.
Source: CNN Brasil
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