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Between 1998 and 2017, Zholia Alemi worked as a psychiatrist, before she was convicted of fraud and forgery.

Making herself the beneficiary, she forged the will and power of attorney of an 84-year-old client.

Alemi was jailed for five years for the crime.

While researching the story, journalist Phil Coleman contacted the University of Auckland, where Alemi claimed to have received her degree.

The uni checked and discovered that Zholia Alemi had completed the first part of

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