LONDON—Thousands of foreign doctors in the UK are having their backgrounds checked after it was found that a woman was able to practice psychiatry for 22 years without any qualifications.
The woman, Zholia Alemi, was jailed for fraud in October after faking a dementia patient’s will to try to become the benefactor of her $1.6 million estate. Despite not having any qualifications, Alemi managed to register as a psychiatrist in the UK after traveling from New Zealand in 1995 and exploiting a loophole in the system.
