Doctor who forged certificates for aesthetic procedures gets four months’ jail in Singapore


Bernard Tan Wen Sheng pleaded guilty to two counts of forgery and one count of giving false information to a public servant. - Photo: ST file

SINGAPORE: A doctor specialising in aesthetic services was sentenced to four months’ jail on Tuesday (July 29) after he forged four certificates of competence (COCs) and submitted them to the Ministry of Health (MOH).

Bernard Tan Wen Sheng committed the offences to obtain a licence for his medical practice, and two of the COCs pertained to workshops he had not attended at the time.

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