{"id":24751,"date":"2025-11-19T07:00:00","date_gmt":"2025-11-19T06:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.funminews.com\/?p=24751"},"modified":"2025-11-18T19:23:34","modified_gmt":"2025-11-18T18:23:34","slug":"doctor-of-deception-uk-jails-nigerian-doctor-for-268000-dollars-nhs-fraud","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.funminews.com\/index.php\/2025\/11\/19\/doctor-of-deception-uk-jails-nigerian-doctor-for-268000-dollars-nhs-fraud\/","title":{"rendered":"\u201cDoctor of Deception&#8221;: UK Jails Nigerian Doctor for 268,000 Dollars NHS Fraud"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"\"><strong>LONDON \u2014<\/strong> A Nigerian doctor Richard Akinrolabu has been sentenced to three years in prison in Britain after admitting to defrauding the National Health Service of more than 268,000 Dollars by secretly working night shifts at multiple hospitals while claiming he was too ill to do the same work for his primary employer.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"\">Richard Akinrolabu, 61, was employed as a trust grade specialist registrar in obstetrics and gynecology at Princess Royal University Hospital. Between 2018 and 2021, he repeatedly told King\u2019s College Hospital that he was medically unfit to take on night or on\u2011call duties. Yet investigators later discovered he was working those very shifts at three other NHS trusts, pocketing extra pay while his employer was forced to hire locum doctors to cover his absence.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"\">The National Health Service (NHS) Counter Fraud Authority said the deception unraveled in late 2021 when King\u2019s College Hospital received information that Akinrolabu had been moonlighting at Basildon Hospital. A probe revealed he had worked dozens of on\u2011call shifts elsewhere while on sick leave or reduced duties.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"\">At Woolwich Crown Court, Akinrolabu pleaded guilty to four counts of fraud by false representation. Judge David Miller, in sentencing him on November 4, 2025, said: \u201cYou lied to occupational health, your colleagues and your employer. The public doesn\u2019t expect doctors to lie for personal gain.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"\">Ben Harrison, head of operations at the NHS Counter Fraud Authority, called the case \u201ca clear and deliberate abuse of trust\u201d and said the funds lost should have gone to patient care. \u201cBy working additional on\u2011call and night shifts, despite being unfit to do so, Akinrolabu defrauded the NHS of substantial funds that should have supported patients,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"\">Health advocates expressed concern that the case could erode public trust in the medical profession. \u201cDoctors are held to the highest standards of integrity. When one abuses that trust, it damages confidence in the system,\u201d said a spokesperson for a UK medical ethics watchdog.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"\">Nigerian community leaders in London also reacted with disappointment. \u201cThis conviction is a reminder that our professionals abroad must uphold the values of honesty and accountability,\u201d said one leader, adding that the case should not overshadow the contributions of thousands of Nigerian doctors working honorably in the NHS.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"\">Parents of patients voiced anger at the misuse of funds. \u201cEvery pound lost to fraud is a pound that could have gone to better care for our children,\u201d one mother told reporters outside the court.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"\">Akinrolabu\u2019s conviction adds to a growing list of Nigerians prosecuted abroad for fraud. In September, British authorities arrested Farouk Adekunle Adepoju following a U.S. indictment alleging he hacked into a Pennsylvania construction company\u2019s email system to divert payments. Earlier in 2025, five Nigerians were sentenced in the United States to a combined 159 years in prison for orchestrating a 17 million Dollars transnational fraud ring that scammed more than 100 victims.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"\">The NHS itself has faced other fraud scandals. In one case, a fake psychiatrist was ordered to repay more than 400,000 Euros after forging medical qualifications to secure NHS positions. Other staff have been caught moonlighting while on sick leave, forcing hospitals to spend heavily on locum cover.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"\">The case underscores the vulnerability of public institutions to insider abuse and the determination of the NHS to pursue fraud aggressively, even against its own staff.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>LONDON \u2014 A Nigerian doctor Richard Akinrolabu has been sentenced to three years in prison in Britain after admitting to defrauding the National Health Service of more than 268,000 Dollars by secretly working night shifts at multiple hospitals while claiming he was too ill to do the same work for his primary employer. 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