Trust us: utterly unqualified man and woman arrested for performing illegal cosmetic surgery in Shanghai
He had four days’ training in a Shenzhen hotel room, and she operated out of a manicure salon
A man with four days training and woman manicurist have each been charged for performing unqualified cosmetic beauty treatments in Shanghai, news website reports.
The man, surnamed Nie, opened an illegal plastic surgery clinic in the city while the woman, surnamed Yang, operated a manicure salon.
The two were not known to each other but both charged high fees for similar illegal services that included injections and micro-surgical treatments, Thepaper.cn reported on Tuesday.
Nie, opened an underground beauty clinic early last year after receiving four days plastic surgery training in a hotel room in Shenzhen in December, 2014.
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Prosecutors in Shanghai Minhang District arrested Nie for selling fake medications.
Seeing the huge profits of plastic surgery, Yang began to practise plastic surgery despite a lack of qualifications at her manicure salon.