Doctor used silicone fingers to fool biometric machines to cover for absentee colleagues

A Brazilian newspaper has reported that a doctor in the city of Sao Paulo was arrested after being caught in the act of using fake fingers made of silicone and imprinted with real fingerprints to defraud a hospital's biometric punch-in clock.
The report says that the doctor, named as Thauane Nunes Ferreira, was detained and released on Sunday.
Police told the newspaper that she confessed to using different fake fingers bearing the prints of 11 fellow doctors and 20 nurses to pretend that they were showing up to work five overnight shifts each month instead of just one.
CCTV images of Ferreira allegedly using the fake fingers were aired on Brazilian television on Tuesday.
Ferreira also said the staff at the Ferraz Vasconcelos hospital paid the director 2,400 US dollars per month to participate.
Speaking outside the hospital, Carlos Cesar Alves, Municipal Secretary for Public Safety, confirmed that she had named another person as "leader and the strategist of the scheme".
Her lawyer, meanwhile, said that she has declared herself innocent and that she had to do it as a condition of keeping her job.
Ferreira will face charges of falsifying a public document and could get two to six years in prison.