A former official of the Integrated University Health and Social Services Center (CIUSSS) of the Capitale-Nationale has just been accused of having produced false proof of vaccination against COVID-19 which made it possible to obtain false passports vaccinations last year.
Posted at 4:51 p.m.
Carolane Fournier, a 27-year-old Quebec resident, is charged with breach of trust, production of false documents and fraudulent use of a computer. She was pinned recently as part of an investigation by the Permanent Anti-Corruption Unit (UPAC).
“As an accompanying agent in a mass vaccination site against COVID-19 located at Laval University, in Quebec, Carolane Fournier made false feeds in the Quebec Vaccination Registry for herself and for other people” , specifies the UPAC in a press release. The false information was allegedly used to obtain vaccine evidence in the form of a QR code.
The offenses were committed between September 8 and September 17, 2021, according to police. The accused, who remains at large during the court process, is due to appear by way of summons on 1er November, at the Quebec courthouse. Carolane Fournier has not been employed by the CIUSSS since September 2021.
Last January, The Press revealed that employees of the health network from all over Quebec had already been identified by the authorities who suspected them of having received money to help create fraudulent vaccine passports. Thousands of entries considered suspicious had been noticed in the immunization registers, either because the vaccines were entered into the system several weeks or months late, or because they were entered overnight, or because the two doses of vaccine, theoretically administered on two different dates, were entered into the system at the same time.
Sometimes the data submitted by citizens to obtain their Vaxicode implied the presence of the same vaccinator in two regions at the same time.