据美国有线电视新闻网报道，过去两个月，孟买十几个私人疫苗接种点涉嫌以盐水代替新冠疫苗为民众接种，受害者超2000人。

 

Thousands of people have fallen prey¹ to an elaborate wide-ranging scam selling fake coronavirus vaccines² in India, with doctors and medical workers among those arrested for their involvement, authorities say.

印度政府称，印度新冠病毒假疫苗案涉案人员已被逮捕，其中包括医生和医务人员，数千人成为这场精心策划、影响广泛的骗局的牺牲品。

 

孟买地区发生至少12起假疫苗案

 

At least 12 fake vaccination³ drives were held in or near the financial hub Mumbai, in the country's western Maharashtra state, said Vishal Thakur, a senior official of the Mumbai police department.

孟买警察局高级官员维沙尔·塔库尔表示，在印度西部马哈拉施特拉邦的金融中心孟买及周边地区至少发生了12起假疫苗接种案件。

 

"They were using saline water and injecting it," Thakur said. "Every fake vaccination camp that they held, they were doing this."

塔库尔说：“他们给人们注射盐水。他们在每个假疫苗接种点都是这样做的。”

 

An estimated 2,500 people were given fake shots, he said. The organizers charged their victims fees for the shots, earning up to $28,000 in total.

塔库尔称，估计有2500人被注射了假疫苗。诈骗组织向受害者收取疫苗接种费用，总金额高达2.8万美元（约合181000元人民币）。

 

"We have arrested doctors," he added. "They were using a hospital which was producing the fake certificates, vials, syringes."

他补充道，“骗子们利用一家医院制作假证、药水瓶、注射器。我们已经逮捕了医生。”

 

Siddharth Chandrashekhar, a lawyer in Mumbai, filed a public interest lawsuit⁴ on June 24 -- by which point the public prosecutor⁵ had already confirmed more than 2,000 victims of the scams.

孟买当地律师西达尔特·钱德拉谢卡尔在6月24日提起公益诉讼，此时检方已经确认了2000多名假疫苗案受害者。

 

印度警方已逮捕14名涉案人员

 

The fake vaccination drives took place between late May and early June, according to CNN affiliate⁶ CNN-News18. Authorities began investigating after some of the scam victims, suspicious of the vaccination certificates they received, reported it to police.

据美国有线电视新闻网（CNN）下属机构CNN新闻18频道报道，假疫苗接种案件发生在5月底至6月初。一些受害者对他们收到的疫苗接种证书产生怀疑后，向警方报案，随后印度政府介入调查。

 

印度媒体报道称，印度孟买一住宅区的约390名居民表示他们中了“疫苗骗局”。这些居民在5月底接种疫苗，直到10-15天后才收到疫苗接种证书。然而，这些接种证书却来自几个不同的医院，当人们联系这些医院时，对方否认给该社区提供过疫苗。

 

截至目前，已有14人因涉嫌诈骗、故意杀人未遂等罪名被捕。

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