14 Oct 2021: A 'life coach' charged with posing as a doctor and writing 600 fake Covid 'exemption certificates' believed she had the authority to hand out medical documents, police claim.

Maria Pau, also known as Maria Power, is alleged to have issued the exemptions from a premises in Labrador on the Gold Coast, with the certificates stating a person is exempt from undergoing COVID testing, receiving a vaccine and wearing a mask.



Police arrested the 45-year-old woman from Darling Heights, near Toowoomba, at an address on Robert St, Labrador. Police allege she charged $150 per certificate to a clientele located across Australia.



'She does not hold a medical doctorate degree. And as I indicated earlier, she's not registered with AHPRA (the Australia Health Practitioner Regulation Agency), nor is she registered with Medicare.'

Ms Pau founded a charity, Coaching With Substance, which aims to help people overcome addictions, 'improve their life skills and reclaim a sense of self-worth'. She has an extensive social media presence in which she claims her charity is 'multi-award winning' and that she is an international best-selling author who has written over 150 articles and academic texts regarding wellness and recovery from addiction.

One of her e-books, Kill Your Addiction Before It Kills You: How I Transformed My Life of Addictions, Bipolar and Suicide, sells for $19 on the Coaching with Substance website. The book, the blurb says, tells the story of how Ms Pau travelled on a plane alone at 11 years of age to come to Australia.
'Started drinking at 13 and began smoking crystal meth at 15 years old. By 18 she was selling her body for a living and spent her 20s modelling, dabbling with marijuana, cocaine, ecstasy and LSD, partying with socialites, fashionistas, politicians, celebrities and going out with Yakuza, Triad and 5T gangster boyfriends.'



Originally from Makati in the Philippines, Ms Pau discusses her own 20-year battle with 'poly-drug use', including a 'history of many psychiatric institutionalisations in four countries'. 'Somehow I found myself all alone as a fashion model in Asia at 17 years old, with no chaperone and no guidance from any parent figure. 'I look back now and realise that it was a sure-fire recipe for attracting the wrong people of the world.'



Full: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/articl ... Coast.html


UPDATE 28 Oct 2021:

A woman accused of pretending to be a fake doctor to issue a fake Covid exemption certificate to hundreds of Australians was ordered to mask herself before confronting the court for the first time. Maria Carmela Pau, also known as Maria Power, was silent when she arrived at the Magistrates’ Court on Thursday, two weeks after being sensationally arrested and charged by a detective.

After her arrest, Deputy Criminal Inspector Damian Powell described Paw as “anti-covid.” “(She) doesn’t believe people should be vaccinated. She doesn’t think she’s doing anything wrong,” Powell told reporters.

Ms Pau is listed as the founder of CoachingWithSubstance, a registered public charity. This charity aims to help people overcome addiction and improve their life skills and self-esteem “using the spiritual values ​​of love, faith, hope, forgiveness and compassion.”

Her lawyer, Ali Lana, called for a three-week postponement for a case meeting with police. Pau will return to court on November 18th.



Full: https://sydneynewstoday.com/maria-carme ... rt/401809/

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