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News24 Wire reports that an East London medical doctor, who was arrested on Thursday for allegedly selling a sick note to an undercover Hawks agent, was released on R3,000 bail by the East London Magistrate’s Court on Tuesday.
The National Prosecuting Authority (NPA) said the fraud case against Dr Siphokazi Sokupa, 69, was postponed to 23 September for further investigation. NPA spokesperson Anelisa Ngcakani indicated that they received complaints from a number of businesses in East London, questioning the legitimacy of sick notes authorised by Sokupa and submitted by their employees. The Hawks conducted an undercover sting operation in which the doctor was caught on camera issuing a sick note without examining the patient. Apparently, she recorded on the sick note the ailment that the patient advised her to record.” Ngcakani revealed that two more similar cases against Sokupa were still before the court. In the one case, Sokupa allegedly issued two medical certificates to an undercover police agent without examining him. In the other case, she was arrested during level 5 lockdown for allegedly issuing fraudulent travel permits to taxi drivers to transport people to other parts of the Eastern Cape.
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