Zholia Alemi worked as a psychiatrist for 20 years after claiming to have qualified at the University of Auckland in New Zealand, her trial at Manchester Crown Court was told.
Opening the case yesterday, Christopher Stables, prosecuting, said: "To put it bluntly, the defendant is a fraud. While she held herself out as being a doctor, she was utterly unqualified to do so."
He said she forged a degree certificate and a letter of verification which she sent to the General Medical Council in 1995 with the aim of being registered as a doctor in the UK.
Mr Stables told the jury: "She is, say the prosecution, a most accomplished forger and fraudster, but has no qualification that would allow her to be called, or in any way to be properly regarded as, a doctor."
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