The Lëtzebuerger Land newspaper in November reported the fraud attempt, saying the member of staff with access to the platform had notified management. The senior employee at the Santé health administration has been suspended and the case was forwarded to the prosecutor’s office.

“Following this incident, the procedures have once again been verified and strengthened, and there are now systematic and randomised controls to check if the certificates given out are justified,” said health minister Paulette Lenert (LSAP) in answer to .

Lenert said that thanks to the change in procedures, only the Aid and Verification Service (SAV)--which produces the vaccination or recovery certificates--would have access to these features. In addition, staff will have to sign in with their name, meaning that any action that generated a certificate can be traced back to a specific employee.

This information comes shortly after by Luxembourg lawmakers, making restaurants, bars, cinemas and other public venues only accessible to the vaccinated or recovered, while the unvaccinated will have to get tested every day to go to work starting 15 January.

The use of fake documents to circumvent CovidCheck between €251 and €12,500, as well as prison sentences of between one month and one year, depending of the circumstances.