A VICTORIAN man has been found guilty of six charges relating to claiming to be a medical practitioner when he was not registered.
The Magistrates' Court of Victoria heard Panayiotis Marlassi-Bouras had never been registered with the Medical Board of Australia despite attempting to pass himself off as a doctor.
The Court heard that in Jan and Feb 2019 Marlassi-Bouras advised one "patient", who was a complainant in the case against him, to stop taking her epilepsy medication.
The presiding magistrate described Marlass-Bouras' actions as, "reckless" and "extremely dangerous", before issuing a fine of $10,000 and ordering him to pay the Australia Health Practitioner Regulation Agency's costs of $1,308.
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