Finland’s National Bureau of Investigations (NBI) has completed pretrial investigations regarding the activities of two separate travel agencies located in south-east Finland. Several persons acting on behalf of the agencies – one in Imatra, the other in Lappeenranta – are suspected, among other offences, of having falsified dozens of HIV certificates for customers applying for visas to Russia.
According to the NBI, the certificates were fabricated using result forms belonging to various laboratories, forged health centre stamps, and falsified signatures. Some of the forgeries were prepared by substituting information onto copies of authentic certificates.
The story does not tell whether anyone using a falsified certificate was aware of its illegality, nor whether any of the users carried the HIV infection.
Both agencies are also suspected of accounting offences as well as of other white-collar crime.
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