People who paid vulnerable individuals on Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside to get vaccinated using their identification could face jail time, according to a criminal lawyer.
Vancouver Coastal Health confirmed with Vancouver Is Awesome Friday (Jan. 14) that it is aware of instances of people attempting to obtain BC vaccine cards fraudulently by paying vulnerable individuals in the DTES to be vaccinated while falsely using their name and information.
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Vancouver criminal lawyer Kyla Lee tells V.I.A. that both parties involved in obtaining a fraudulent vaccine card could face charges.
“That is fraud,” she said, noting that the unhoused person could “face a serious charge,” though it likely would not be “in the public interest” for such charges to be pursued.
However, Lee remarked, the person who paid to have someone obtain the vaccination, and, in turn, the proof of vaccination documents “could be charged.”
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