Posted by Dataflow on April 23, 2012 ·
"The Telegraph", United Kingdom on 22nd April 2012 : Susan Kelly, 45, was in charge of a team of other carers unsupervised by doctors at an NHS walk-in centre after telling her employers she had a degree. But after investigation it was discovered she had dropped out of her university studies and then, along with her husband Mark Darren Kelly, forged her qualifications to get the job. She was [...]
Posted by Dataflow on April 18, 2012 ·
"BLITZ", Bangladesh on 18th April 2012 : Khan Azad Al-Afiq, son of Md. Shafiqul Islam Khan of Brahmanbaria district, who managed job of the third engineer in a merchant vessel by using fake certificates is being sheltered by the controversial minister for Shipping Ministry, Shahjahan Khan. The minister and few of the influential figures in the ministry as well as the Shipping office and Department [...]
Posted by Dataflow on April 4, 2012 ·
"Hull and East Riding", United Kingdom on 03rd April 2012 : A Hospital worker could be struck off after faking a reference to get a job. Biomedical scientist Mohammed Aamar provided the false reference to get a job at Hull And East Riding Hospitals NHS Trust. The NHS counter-fraud unit spent almost £25,000 investigating the case after colleagues became suspicious. Aamar, 34, has been given [...]
Posted by Dataflow on February 22, 2012 ·
"RIANOVOSTI", Russia on 20th February 2012 : The Tver district court sentenced a prominent lawyer and TV presenter to two years in prison for fraud when it was uncovered that he had been practicing law with a false diploma over 12 years, the Kommersant newspaper reported on Monday. Vladimir Oreshnikov was found to have worked as a lawyer illegally, using a false diploma. The latter charge could [...]
Posted by Dataflow on February 13, 2012 ·
"allAfrica", Zimbabwe on 12th February 2012 : Makerere University acting Vice Chancellor Venansius Baryamureeba has been accused of falsifying his academic profile and submitting plagiarised work to get accelerated promotion to full Professor. Prof. Eli Rwakishaya-Katunguka, the director for Graduate Studies, wrote to the University Council chairman Wana-Etyem on January 31, asking that Baryamureeba [...]
Posted by Dataflow on February 6, 2012 ·
"York Daily Record", USA on 02nd February 2012 : A woman who faked her resume to obtain a job with the U.S. Navy was indicted Wednesday on federal wire-fraud charges after she allegedly used forged documents to obtain a government-backed loan to purchase a $450,000 Chanceford Township property. Caitlin Lucille Walls Smith, 37, is already serving nearly three years in prison for forging her [...]
Posted by Dataflow on February 6, 2012 ·
"Mail Online", United Kingdom on 02nd February 2012 : A bogus biology teacher forged her qualifications to work as an examiner for an A-level exam board. Julia Rawlinson, 44, duped her bosses by using a computer to forge a degree, doctorate and teaching certificates. She then got a job at examination board Edexcel – marking thousands of A-level papers for students across Britain – [...]
Posted by Dataflow on February 3, 2012 ·
"Deccan Herald", India on 31st January 2012 : Governor H R Bhardwaj on Tuesday appointed a commission headed by Justice Abhay Gohil, a retired judge of Madhya Pradesh High Court, to inquire into the allegation levelled against H Maheshappa, vice-chancellor, Visvesvaraya Technological University, that he made false claims about his academic credentials to get the post. Justice Gohil was also [...]
Posted by Dataflow on January 24, 2012 ·
"Daily Times", Pakistan on 21st January 2012 : Police on Friday registered cases of fraud and deception against five female members of the Punjab Assembly for submitting fake copies of their bachelor’s degrees in the Election Commission. The MPAs had submitted the copies to get reserve seats in the assembly. The five cases with the same charges were registered by the Islampura (Krishan [...]
Posted by Dataflow on December 12, 2011 ·
"koreaherald.com", Korea on 08th December 2011: Four Korean-Americans, including one former gang member with a violent criminal history in the U.S., were arrested by police on Wednesday on suspicion of falsifying their academic credentials. According to the Seoul Metropolitan Police Agency on Thursday, five were arrested after being caught smoking marijuana together, and further investigation [...]