The Pharmaceutical Journal
Vol 275 No 7363 p216
20 August 2005

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Pharmacist jailed for fraud

Defrauding the NHS of £464 has resulted in the jailing of a Yorkshire pharmacist for nine months.

Mohammed Shabir, of Wigton Lane, Leeds, was convicted earlier this month of false accounting and deception charges during a hearing before Leeds Crown Court. He had denied the charges.

The court heard that over a nine-month period Mr Shabir had charged patients for their prescriptions then claimed the money back from the NHS saying the patients were exempt. Judge Peter Hunt told Mr Shabir: “The sum of money is not so large, but the consequences will be serious in other regards. Professional men and women are trusted to account for their expenditure on the basis of absolute faith. It’s a breach of trust of a very serious kind indeed.”