Dr Mark Hobart, the GP suspended under emergency powers for allegedly giving out fake vaccine exemptions, says he has been fined $27,000 by Victoria’s Department of Health.

Last year, officers raided his practice and seized patient records following an anonymous tip-off that he was writing the certificates without clinical justification.

He was then targeted by AHPRA, which threatened to prosecute him for “holding himself out as a registered doctor” while suspended, a criminal offence that can lead to three years’ jail.

Yesterday, Dr Hobart told his 14,000 Twitter followers that he had been fined $27,000 by the health department “over the raid”, while AHPRA continued to chase him for an interview about “impersonating a doctor”.