A phony doctor who says he can cure cancer has been busted for giving injections to women with one hand while groping them with the other, law-enforcement sources said yesterday.
Viktor Goncharov, 57, of Brooklyn, was arrested last Wednesday and charged with sexual abuse and unauthorized practice of a profession, the Manhattan DA’s office said. He is being held in lieu of $50,000 bail.
Goncharov, a Russian immigrant with offices in lower Manhattan and Brighton Beach, advertises himself as a proponent of “Koch therapy,” an alternative form of cancer therapy. The National Cancer Institute says “there is no evidence” the regimen is effective.
A 2001 story in the Boston University student newspaper quotes him as saying he knows how to cure cancer. Goncharov allegedly abused two patients, one at each office. In both cases, he falsely claimed to be a doctor, the sources said.
The Manhattan case involved a 23-year-old woman.
Between February 2006 and July 2006, he injected an unknown solution into her buttocks on five occasions, a criminal complaint says.
“While administering the injections, the suspect would rub the victim’s buttocks with his other hand and made sexually explicit comments,” it adds.
Once, he allegedly pushed his hand up the woman’s pants and “fondled her vagina.”
In April 2006, Goncharov allegedly injected a substance into the buttocks of the second woman while fondling her vagina with his other hand in Brooklyn.
The phony doc then exposed his penis and asked the woman to have sex with him, authorities charge.