AUSTRALIA
The Advertiser
By Kevin Meade
09aug05
VINCENT Berg, the bogus psychiatrist employed by Queensland Health for 12 months at the Townsville Hospital, is a convicted pedophile.
The imposter, whose phony medical qualifications were exposed at the Morris inquiry last week, was sentenced to three years' jail in the Soviet Union in 1987 for indecent dealing with boys.
Berg was also deported from the US in the early 1980s after he was accused of stealing church ornaments. He was later defrocked in his home country as a Russian Orthodox priest, according to a Russian newspaper report.
Berg was convicted in the People's Court in Kaluga, Russia, of indecent dealing with children in February 1987 and sentenced to three years' jail with hard labour. He was released after serving nine months in prison.