Matteo Politi, the eighth-grade plastic surgeon, is wanted by police halfway around the world

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Matteo Politi, the eighth-grade plastic surgeon, is wanted by police halfway
Matteo Politi

An Oscar "career" of deception. A life that looks like a movie, that of Matteo Politi. The script of his story is a mix between "Catch me if you can" and "Grey's Anatomy". This is because "Dr. Matteo Politi, specialist in cosmetic and aesthetic medicine" - that's how he qualifies on Facebook and Instagram, where he boasts over 1,200 followers - in reality, he didn't go beyond the eighth grade.

In Bucharest he called himself "Doctor Matthey Mode"

However, contrary to his "zero qualifications", he poses as a doctor for more than 15 years, first in Italy and then abroad.

"Dr. Matteo Politi alias Matthew Mode" wherever he goes, he qualifies as a "VIP doctor", an expert in aesthetic medicine, a "magician of plastic surgery".

Now 43 years old, just like then, the self-styled doctor continues fearlessly to fool everyone. And he always succeeds, even though his "leitmotif" has remained the same: he only has a high school diploma, but everywhere he goes he presents himself as a doctor with a degree from the best universities in the world.

After being exposed, denounced and tried in 2010 in Verona, he tried again "successfully" in Romania. In Bucharest, the fake surgeon managed to operate undisturbed for more than a year in four elite clinics, treating hundreds of patients without any skills.

In 2019, as well as in Italy, he was discovered red-handed in Romania as well, where he was kept under preventive arrest for 30 days, an authentic national scandal broke out and the case of the "fake Italian doctor" ended at the front.

The media was covered with headlines about how "nurses have said that 'Dr. Politi-Mode didn't even know how to wear surgical gloves."

The last sightings in Hong Kong

The result was a trial that resulted in three years and ten months in prison for fraud, a sentence that became final in March of this year. The Court of Bucharest also decided that, given the confirmation of the sentence on appeal, he should serve the sentence in prison.

However, in a move à la Leonardo di Caprio, he thought it good to play ahead by dribbling the prison order.

Once again, the self-proclaimed wizard of surgery who in reality is a "wizard of fraud", has managed to make fun of everyone. Against him, the Bucharest District Court has "order for the execution of the prison sentence no. 1523".

Everyone is looking for it and no one can find it: the last sightings on social media were in Hong Kong, Asia, on the Hung Hom beach. The Romanian media write that they have tried to contact him, but have not found an answer.

Meanwhile, in the latest photos published on his social profiles, he appears laughing, flexing his muscles between beaches and gyms.

He also operated in the emergency room of the two main hospitals in Verona

In Italy, before Judge Scaliger, in his judicial debut, the bogus doctor got away with a one-and-a-half-year plea deal for fraud, a suspended sentence.

In 2010, in Verona, there was a policeman who got into trouble for the beauty treatments received at the wellness center in his name.

From the investigations, it turned out at that time that through his false credentials he had reached the point of operating in the emergency of the two main hospitals in Verona, both Borgo Trento and Policlinico.

Incredibly, no one had noticed his total lack of qualifications. Before the "disaffected" from the aesthetic treatment denounced him, hundreds of people had turned to the fake doctor, considering him a doctor in all aspects and not reporting any anomalies in his work.

In Romania, Politi reinvented himself as “Dr. Mateu Mode", a British plastic surgeon with an enviable curriculum: studies in the USA, surgical experience in the United Kingdom, Spain, Italy. All fake, including certificates, however he operated in Bucharest at Euromedical, Prestige, MH Medical Group.

But his blunders in the operating rooms began to catch the eye of the nurses, who became suspicious.

/ Corriere della Sera


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