The raid on a Rüdesheim shisha bar on suspicion of illegal drug trafficking unexpectedly led investigators to the trail of a gang of vaccination pass thieves and forgers.
As the police report, when searching the bar of the 28-year-old suspect, investigators found several blank vaccination cards under the counter along with vaccination batch stickers and the official stamp of the Eltville vaccination center.
Oliver Bock
Correspondent for the Rhein-Main-Zeitung for the Rheingau-Taunus district and for Wiesbaden.
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The evaluation of the data from the bar owner's mobile phone showed that he had obtained the ID cards from a 32-year-old man from Bad Schwalbach.
Two dozen vaccination cards and almost 100 vaccination batch stickers were then discovered in his apartment.
According to the police, the thirty-two-year-old employee of a security service stole the ID cards from the Eltville vaccination center in order to sell them for a profit.
He cooperated with three accomplices who also worked as security guards in the vaccination center of the Rheingau-Taunus district.
The group also issued negative certificates of evidence that rapid corona tests had not been carried out.