Pictured: Dr Hakeem Lateef has been struck off after paying a financial institution employee to falsify his CV so he may get a brand new job in finance
An NHS physician’s 27 yr profession in drugs was in ruins as we speak after he was struck off for faking his CV so he may get a brand new job in finance after being suspended from practising.
Dr Hakeem Lateef, 54, was quizzed by police after he tried to get a job in regulatory compliance and anti-money laundering simply six weeks after he was suspended from drugs for mendacity about his involvement in a head on automotive crash.
Throughout an elaborate rip-off, Lateef paid a financial institution employee £400 to attend a at some point Co-op banking course on due diligence work then gave him an extra £100 to ‘edit’ his CV and embody referees.
Later the physician – who has labored in orthopaedics and trauma, ENT, normal surgical procedure and urology at hospitals throughout the UK – posted his new CV to a recruitment company falsely claiming he had labored as a compliance analyst for a string of economic organisations together with the Nationwide Financial institution of Egypt and the Nationwide banks.
Police had been known as in when a particular Co-op investigator finishing up an inside probe discovered two copies of Lateef’s CV on the pc exhausting drive of the person who had helped him – one displaying the physician’s medical expertise and the second with the faked entries.
No legal motion was taken in opposition to Lateef for the offence of trying to acquire a pecuniary benefit by deception however he was referred to the Normal Medical Council.
The physician, who certified in 1995, denied wrongdoing and claimed his PC had been ‘hacked’.
On the Medical Practitioners Tribunal service, in Manchester, Lateef, from Toxteth, Liverpool, who has most lately been working in drug and alcohol detox companies was discovered responsible of significant skilled misconduct and dishonesty.
The listening to was instructed how in March 2018, Lateef had been suspended by the MPTS when he mislead the Normal Medical Council concerning the particulars of a harmful driving conviction in 2016.
Dr Lateef labored at a lot of hospitals throughout his profession together with Withybush in Wales
A tribunal discovered he understated the accidents of a girl concerned within the crash, lied on a way type when he was sentenced and instructed the GMC that he had his licence revoked for rushing and in consequence he was suspended for six months with the tribunal noting it was an ‘remoted incident’.
The next month, the physician paid a financial institution employee often known as Mr A £400 to attend a one-day banking compliance course titled, ‘Intensive and sensible Know Your Buyer, Buyer Due Diligence coaching’.
The next day Lateef emailed a replica of his CV and requested Mr A to ‘write’ or ‘edit’ it, including: ‘Thanks for great lectures of yesterday. I perceive somebody can assist us with referees. Please help me on this space’.
He additionally paid him an extra £100 for his companies.
Later, Lateef emailed his faked CV to Bristol-based recruitment company Emponics which specialises within the finance trade, falsely bragging of his work in regulatory compliance and tackling cash laundering.
He additionally fraudulently claimed to have labored for 2 years for the London-based specialist worldwide financial institution FBN which facilitates commerce between Africa and Europe. The brand new CV made no reference to Lateef’s medical {qualifications} or expertise.
Lateef was later interviewed by Higher Manchester Police and accepted attending the course and paying for his authentic CV to be edited.
However he denied submitting the up to date CV to Emponics and urged that his pc could have been hacked.
Throughout the interview Lateef admitted to have by no means labored within the monetary sector. He stated he had requested Mr A to ‘tidy up’ his CV solely to be ‘shocked and flabbergasted’ when he obtained the up to date model.
Lateef claimed he confronted Mr A saying: ‘Why did you allow my CV and produce one thing else? I’m not going to make use of this type of CV not for ever’.
A tribunal discovered that Dr Lateef (pictured) must be struck off pending a interval of enchantment
He acquired the response: ‘They received’t make use of you in case you don’t present work expertise in these areas.’
Dr Lateef instructed officers: ‘I simply binned the up to date CV as a result of I believed that is ridiculous.
‘I didn’t do something with it. I undoubtedly deleted it and put it within the trash’.
He then claimed his pc had been hacked by a feminine pal who despatched the CV to the recruitment company.
However discovering him responsible of misconduct, tribunal chairman Tim Bradbury stated Lateef’s account was ‘inconceivable’.
He added: ‘The Tribunal didn’t take into account it credible that somebody unknown had hacked Dr Lateef’s e-mail account and submitted a job software on his behalf with out his data.
‘Even when Dr Lateef had not despatched the emails himself, correspondence from Emponics would have been despatched to his e-mail account, to which Dr Lateef had entry. It was subsequently unlikely that Dr Lateef wouldn’t have observed the incoming emails.
‘The Tribunal famous the request for assist with referees and didn’t perceive why Dr Lateef would have thought Mr A would have been in a position to help when Mr A and people who he labored with knew nothing about Dr Lateef past that contained within the authentic CV.
‘There isn’t any proof that he went any additional in pursuing employment within the monetary sector.
‘Nevertheless, thereafter, he maintained an untruthful account and at no stage did he search to withdraw the applying nor inform others as to the falsity of the CV that he had submitted.
‘The Tribunal decided that, in gentle of his data on the time at which the up to date CV was despatched, his actions in so doing had been self-evidently dishonest by the requirements of unusual first rate individuals.’
Mr Bradbury added: ‘The Tribunal acknowledged that on the time of the occasions, Dr Lateef was dealing with extraordinarily difficult private circumstances. Nevertheless, an element of those circumstances associated to his suspension following the discovering of dishonesty by a earlier tribunal.
‘He acted in a intentionally dishonest means as a way to safe employment he wouldn’t in any other case have obtained, and his conduct was correctly characterised as fraud. He has demonstrated that his integrity couldn’t be relied upon.
‘Wholly fictitious info was offered inside the CV which had been ready for the aim of acquiring a accountable place in a financial institution, particularly regulatory compliance and anti-money laundering and an employment for which Dr Lateef was fully unqualified.
‘He has not proven any understanding or perception into the seriousness of the findings which were made in opposition to him.’
In a press release to the listening to Lateef – who labored at Withybush Hospital in Pembrokshire, College Hospital in Cardiff, Royal Liverpool College Hospital, Derriford Hospital in Plymouth and Peterborough and Stamford Hospital NHS Belief, between 2006 and 2017 – stated: ‘I make sure that what’s entrusted to me is stored in belief.
‘I’ve not damaged the belief reposed in me by my purchasers and different employees. I’ve additionally made positive that no person has entry to my e-mail deal with and different delicate and work-related paperwork.
‘Because the incident, I’ve at all times been checking and ensuring that the programs I attend are accredited by well-known our bodies and organisations with integrity and status. I additionally be sure that I don’t ship my CV to any unverified entities that lack integrity and probity.’
