Man in Germany gets 90 Covid-19 shots to sell forged passes

German police have conducted many raids in connection with forgery of vaccination passports in recent months.

He was caught at a vaccination center in Eilenburg in Saxony when he showed up for a Covid-19 shot for the second day in a row. File picture: Peter Byrne/PA Wire

A 60-year-old man allegedly had himself vaccinated against Covid-19 dozens of times in Germany in order to sell forged vaccination cards with real vaccine batch numbers to people not wanting to get vaccinated themselves.

The man from the eastern Germany city of Magdeburg, whose name was not released in line with German privacy rules, is said to have received up to 90 shots against Covid-19 at vaccination centers in the eastern state of Saxony for months until criminal police caught him earlier this month, the German news agency dpa reported Sunday.