Thai Police Probe Bogus Cancer Cure

[chuchok]

Jul 11, 2006

Terminally ill Australians and a New Zealander could have been among the victims of a bogus Austrian doctor arrested in Thailand accused of injecting foreigners with fake cancer and AIDS cures peddled on the internet.

Thai police alleged that several foreigners travelled to Thailand with false hopes only to die after receiving injections of a dangerous chemical compound bought for about $NZ61,000.

Bangkok's Nation newspaper reported that one Australian woman had died in a Thai hospital last year.

In Canberra, Australian Federal Police said they were working with Thai police on the case after receiving information from police in Western Australia and the Northern Territory.

Thai police said Austrian man, Hellfried Sartori, 67, was being held on charges of fraud and practising medicine without a licence in the northern city of Chiang Mai.

It was not clear when he would appear in court or if he would face more charges as the investigation widens amid speculation that he had links with cancer treatment groups in Perth and Darwin.

Several of his patients had died in hospitals in Chiang Mai, according to Thai police Lieutenant General Phanuphong Singhara na Ayutthaya.

His patients learned of his services from advertisements on the internet and had consultations carried out in various hotel rooms in Chiang Mai.

Thai police said Sartori, who studied medicine in Austria, had been convicted in the United States of illegally administering his so-called "ozone treatments" and had served prison time in New York state in May 1992 and Washington in July 1998.

He had been stripped of his medical licence in several US states, police said.

Thai police said his web advertisements offered desperate people all over the world the false prospect of a cure for "everything from AIDS and cancer to allergies and hardening of the arteries".

New Zealand police also joined the probe after a NZ woman was admitted unconscious to intensive care to the Chiang Mai-Ram Hospital.

Hospital officials said the woman checked out on July 4 and NZ embassy officials in Bangkok said she had recovered sufficiently to return to New Zealand.

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[Pattayaman]

Jul 11, 2006

Terminally ill Australians and a New Zealander could have been among the victims of a bogus Austrian doctor arrested in Thailand accused of injecting foreigners with fake cancer and AIDS cures peddled on the internet.

Thai police alleged that several foreigners travelled to Thailand with false hopes only to die after receiving injections of a dangerous chemical compound bought for about $NZ61,000.

Bangkok's Nation newspaper reported that one Australian woman had died in a Thai hospital last year.

In Canberra, Australian Federal Police said they were working with Thai police on the case after receiving information from police in Western Australia and the Northern Territory.

Thai police said Austrian man, Hellfried Sartori, 67, was being held on charges of fraud and practising medicine without a licence in the northern city of Chiang Mai.

It was not clear when he would appear in court or if he would face more charges as the investigation widens amid speculation that he had links with cancer treatment groups in Perth and Darwin.

Several of his patients had died in hospitals in Chiang Mai, according to Thai police Lieutenant General Phanuphong Singhara na Ayutthaya.

His patients learned of his services from advertisements on the internet and had consultations carried out in various hotel rooms in Chiang Mai.

Thai police said Sartori, who studied medicine in Austria, had been convicted in the United States of illegally administering his so-called "ozone treatments" and had served prison time in New York state in May 1992 and Washington in July 1998.

He had been stripped of his medical licence in several US states, police said.

Thai police said his web advertisements offered desperate people all over the world the false prospect of a cure for "everything from AIDS and cancer to allergies and hardening of the arteries".

New Zealand police also joined the probe after a NZ woman was admitted unconscious to intensive care to the Chiang Mai-Ram Hospital.

Hospital officials said the woman checked out on July 4 and NZ embassy officials in Bangkok said she had recovered sufficiently to return to New Zealand.

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Edited July 18, 2006 by Pattayaman