False Italian Plastic Surgeon Caught Trying To Flee Romania

According to a statement issued by the Romanian Border Police, the suspect, 38-year old Mateo Politi, was found around 6.00 local time aboard a train headed to Budapest, and presented an Italian passport at the border check.

The suspect was handed over to the Romanian Police and will be questioned at Bucharest’s Fourth Police Precinct.

Bucharest prosecutors launched a criminal probe on Wednesday after an investigative press report revealed that the man performed dozens of surgeries in private clinics without having a medical license.

According to the report published by Libertatea, Politi performed plastic surgeries on dozens of people at several private clinics in the past year, despite the fact that he didn’t have a degree in medicine and lacked a license allowing to practice throughout Romania.

The suspect only graduated middle school, and was previously sentenced to prison in Italy after a similar case, in which he falsely claimed to be a medic related to a famous Italian cardiologist with the same last name.

Following the report, prosecutors from the Bucharest Sector 1 Court opened an in rem criminal investigation into the situation, after they were notified by the Romanian College of Physicians.

The College of Physicians announced on Tuesday that it did not grant the Italian citizen any documents which would allow him to practice medicine in the country.

The Monza Group, an Italian chain of private medical clinics present in Romania, announced that Politi performed a surgery in one of their clinics in December 2018. The medical firm stated that he presented a doctor’s seal granted by the Bucharest Public Health Directorate.

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