That bellend should have gone to prison

I am talking about Doctor Hongsheng Kong (not to be confused with the former British colony that is currently administered as part of China), who used false patient records to defraud the Ministry of Health of over NZ$183,000. The Auckland-based GP performed 3800 separate fraudulent transactions over a 33-month period that gained him extra funding under the Primary Health Organisation registry scheme. He also changed the ethnicities of some patients and wrote prescriptions for patients who were overseas to get his hands on even more dough. Fraud is a very serious offence and fraudsters should be punished to an equally serious extent - not just twelve months home detention and 400 hours community service - because the registry is honesty-based and he seriously breached the trust involved with the scheme.