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 6, 2012 ·
"NEWEUROPE", Bulgaria on 05th June 2012 : The former director of the Bulgarian State Fund Agriculture (SFA), Kalina Ilieva, admitted in court that she forged her diploma from the University of Applied Sciences for Engineering and Economy in Berlin. The Sofia District Court approved an agreement between her and the prosecutor’s office for a three-year suspended sentence with 5 year probation [...]
Posted by Dataflow on May 25, 2012 ·
"NORTHWEST Public Radio", USA on 24th May 2012 : A man who nearly became Oregon's State Librarian will now spend the next two years on probation for forgery. He pled guilty Thursday to going beyond just padding his resume. He forged documents showing that he had a degree from the University of Washington. Last winter, Robert Hulshof-Schmidt was just weeks away from an internal promotion [...]
Posted by Dataflow on May 24, 2012 ·
"The News International", Pakistan on 24th May 2012 : Awami National Party (ANP) lawmaker Atifur Rehman Khalil is facing disqualification from the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Assembly seat as a local court dismissed his appeal against the order of University of Peshawar regarding cancellation of his Bachelor of Arts (BA) degree. Judicial Magistrate Muhammad Rehan Samad on Wednesday dismissed civil suit [...]
Posted by Dataflow on May 23, 2012 ·
"The Jakarta Post", Indonesia on 23rd May 2012 : The city police's cyber crime unit revealed on Tuesday that they arrested three suspects earlier this month for allegedly offering an online document forgery service. Unit head Adj. Sr. Comr. Audie Latuheru said that the three suspects had offered the service through the website ijazahaspal.com. He said that, although the service mainly focused [...]
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 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 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 [...]
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 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 – [...]