EFCC says it’s set to prosecute medical doctors who issue faux medical reports to those undergoing trial for monetary crimes.
The acting chairman of the commission, Ibrahim Magu, disclosed this, on Friday, throughout an interactive session with anti-corruption stakeholders and journalists at the EFCC headquarters in Nigerian capital.
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Magu additionally aforementioned several of those faux medical reports issued by doctors really frustrate unfinished cases in court.
“We can extend our investigation to doctors who provides pretend medical reports to people who face completely different types of corruption cases. therefore we tend to place them on the spot. Some would win Senate and gift serial medical results that they can’t seem in court. Some would be dropped at the court on a stretcher”.
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”Many of those pretend medical reports are literally the explanations why several of our cases in court ar overstretched and continue for years endlessly,” Magu explained.
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Many corruption cases in recent years are stalled over alleged ailments suffered by the suspects, several of whom the judges are forced to grant permission to hunt medical treatment, typically overseas. The judges typically act on medical reports given in court by the defence counsel on behalf of their shoppers.