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Dr Asif Munaf was a candidate on the Apprentice(Image: PA)<\/p>\nDr Asif Munaf is also accused of posting offensive messages on social media, a medical tribunal was toldDr Asif Munaf was a candidate on the Apprentice(Image: PA)<\/p>\n
A doctor and former Apprentice contestant has been accused of \u2018disappearing\u2019 hours into a shift at a Coventry<\/a> hospital, a medical tribunal has heard.<\/p>\n Dr Asif Munaf is also accused of sending a string of antisemitic, racist and sexist posts on social media.<\/p>\n Dr Munaf was a contestant on the 2024 edition of the BBC<\/a> series the Apprentice, fronted by Lord Alan Sugar.<\/p>\n Read more: People soiling lobby at Coventry flats as residents left feeling ‘unsafe’<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n Read more: Coventry 2026 local elections – everything you need to know and what’s different this year<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n The tribunal heard that Dr Munaf is accused by the GMC of \u2018disappearing\u2019 just hours into a locum placement as a cardiology specialist registrar at University Hospitals Coventry and Warwickshire<\/a> NHS<\/a> Trust in January 2024.<\/p>\n He walked out \u2018without notice or good reason\u2019 the tribunal heard.<\/p>\n In separate allegations Dr Musaf was accused of sending \u2018seriously offensive\u2019 comments from his X account on various dates between October 2023 and last July.<\/p>\n According to the GMC this includes Holocaust denial and statements equating Jews with Nazism.<\/p>\n In a separate post he is accused of stating that women should not do certain jobs and criticising female empowerment.<\/p>\n On Monday the General Medical Council (GMC) outlined the misconduct allegations against the doctor who is registered under his full name Mohammed Asif Munaf.<\/p>\n Dr Munaf has not attended the tribunal and is not legally represented.<\/p>\n At a previous hearing he denied his posts were antisemitic and added they were \u201cnot befitting of someone as educated as myself and were said in the heat of the emotion\u201d.<\/p>\n The MPTS hearing continues.<\/p>\n