:format(webp)/cloudfront-us-east-1.images.arcpublishing.com/grupoclarin/6QRRE7GX2VCB7KVYFDNZHOCKJQ.jpg "Bolivian police investigate death of a fake doctor with several victims in Bolivia and Chile")
LA PAZ, Bolivia (AP) — Bolivian police were investigating on Wednesday the death of a Chilean citizen accused of practicing medicine illegally with numerous complaints from victims in his country and in Bolivia.
Cristian Emilio Gosen, 63, and his wife of Bolivian nationality were shot on Tuesday night. According to the preliminary police report, the first shot was at his wife and later he would have shot himself, reported the departmental commander of the Santa Cruz police, Erick Holguín.
“It would be a homicide and a suicide,” Holguín mentioned. Police reported that an autopsy is being performed to determine exactly the reason for Gosen’s death.
The man, who posed as a gastroenterologist in the eastern region of Santa Cruz, had been detained in a prison since April 25 when he was arrested following complaints from about 50 people for the alleged improper exercise of the profession and an attack on health. public. A judge determined his preventive detention for 60 days but the Prosecutor’s Office was opening another case for alleged manslaughter.
The day before he had left his cell to receive a hemodialysis session at a hospital. At one point when she went to the bathroom, shots were heard, police reported.
Gosen was accused of performing endoscopies, colonoscopies and surgeries, as a result of which two people died, reported Fabricio Ortiz, the victims’ lawyer.
In Chile he was known as the “swindler with a thousand faces” and posed as a psychiatrist, among other specialties. During the COVID-19 pandemic he was seeing patients online and by phone. When he was discovered, he fled to Bolivia.