An Adelaide optometrist who secretly tampered with more than 400 glasses prescriptions is stripped of his registration.
An Adelaide optometrist who secretly tampered with more than 400 glasses prescriptions has been stripped of his registration.But a tribunal has found he was behind tampering which undermined his business partner's self-confidenceThe SA Civil and Administrative Tribunal found Ashok Bhoola secretly and dishonestly altered his patients' prescriptions on 410 occasions in 2015 and 2016.
But investigations by the franchise, including analysis by a forensic accountant, showed he "must have been" responsible.But the alterations had the effect of undermining his business partner's confidence and causing her to believe she was making "silly mistakes".In total, 359 pairs of glasses were manufactured using the altered scripts, according to the tribunal's judgement.
The woman "suffered a significant loss of confidence" and was embarrassed when other staff members noticed the incorrect results.Specsavers terminated its business relationship with Mr Bhoola after its investigation implicated him in the alterations. The investigation revealed somebody had "systematically" altered the prescriptions using Mr Bhoola's login details.
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