Posted by Dataflow on June 20, 2012 ·
"THE REPUBLIC", USA on 19th June 2012 : A Hoke County woman has been sentenced to three years in federal prison for her role in a Medicaid fraud scheme. Teresa Marible of Raeford was sentenced Tuesday after pleading guilty last year to one count of conspiring to commit health care fraud. Prosecutors said the 44-year-old Marible bought a fake diploma and academic transcript online to help represent [...]
Posted by Dataflow on June 19, 2012 ·
"The Mercury", South Africa on 18th June 2012 : A municipal manager of an ANC-run rural municipality in KZN resigned this week amid an investigation into allegations she faked her bachelor’s degree and used it to get a top job paying her over R50 000 a month. Seeng Mokoena-Brown, the municipal manager of the Ingwe municipality in Bulwer outside Pietermaritzburg, resigned last week after [...]
Posted by Dataflow on May 16, 2012 ·
"tuoitrenews.vn", Vietnam on 15th May 2012 : A district trial court in the central province of Quang Binh sentenced Monday a preschool principal to two years in prison for trading in fake academic diplomas. One of her teachers was handed a 18-month suspended sentence for the same conviction. Nguyen Thi Tuyet, the principal, discovered in August 2010 that Tran Thi Hoai, the other indictee, had [...]
Posted by Dataflow on May 10, 2012 ·
allafrica on March 05, 2012 reported that the South African government has initiated yet another investigation into the authenticity of the alleged South African passport used by a British national suspected of being involved in the recent Kenyan terrorist attacks. This is not the first time that a terror suspect has been found to be in possession of a South African passport. I will today be writing [...]
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 10, 2012 ·
"CHINADAILY.com.cn", China on 10th April 2012 : Nine suspects stood trial at a local court in Beijing on Monday for selling fake degree certificates from universities in the United States to defraud people of about 3.4 million yuan ($540,000). The suspects swindled more than 30 people across the country, including some senior executives of big enterprises, by selling them fake doctorates or [...]
Posted by Dataflow on April 5, 2012 ·
"Times Higher Education", United Kingdom on 05th April 2012 : Overseas students in the UK could be unwitting holders of fake University of Hertfordshire degrees after a man was jailed for forging them, according to police. Waheed Iqbal was found guilty of seven fraud-related charges after giving five overseas students false certificates when he was the principal of the London College of Computing [...]
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 ·
"Vanguard", Nigeria on 21st February 2012 : An Ogun State Magistrate’s court 1, sitting in Isabo, Abeokuta, Monday, sentenced a 27-year-old fake medical doctor, Monday Philips, to three years imprisonment without the option of fine for forgery, fraud and stealing. The Chief Magistrate, Adebola Adenarinwo, who delivered the judgment, said evidence before the court had shown that the [...]