“nationmultimedia.com”, Thailand on 29th June 2011: Two young women were arrested yesterday on suspicion of selling fake teaching degrees online and through social networking services. Suphawan Saengchai was first nabbed in a sting operation when she agreed to sell a set of documents certifying a degree from a government university to undercover agents. This led police to Supreeya Aneknant. Both women admitted to charges of forging government and nongovernmental documents and implicated a man known as “I” as the forger, police said.

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“The Times of India”, India on 19th June 2011 : In a joint raid conducted by the district medical office and Noida Police, three quacks were arrested in sector 130 on Saturday. The search came following intensive checks carried out by special teams that were formed in the wake of complaints from the public that quacks were operating in the area. The degrees and licences of the accused, P K Majumdar, who ran Kolkatta Clinic, Sanjeev Rai who operated the Bengali Clinic and M S Alam, who posed as a medical practitioner in Bihar Clinic, were found to be fake. The raiding team was headed by additional chief medical officer, Dr Daya Ram Prasad and sleuths from the Sector-39 police station.

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“The Times of India”, India on 25th June 2011 : The special cell of Delhi Police has arrested two men for allegedly selling fake higher education degrees. Accused K K Praveen was arrested in Mayur Vihar Phase-III on June 22 and several forged degrees and certificates of various universities and educational boards, including the marksheets, computers, scanner and printers, were seized from him. During interrogation, Praveen disclosed name of one Rameshwar Singh, who was later arrested from Khoda Colony in Ghaziabad. “The seized fake degrees are of MBA, BTech, BBA, BCA, BSc, BA & DPharma and disaster management. The accused used to sell the degrees for Rs 10,000 to 15,000 each,” said a senior police officer.

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“The Times of India”, India on 27th June 2011 : Just how engineering colleges get accreditation from the National Board of Accreditation by making false claims about the faculty’s academic qualification came to light recently in case of two institutions – one from Tamil Nadu and the other from Andhra Pradesh. In 2009 NBA, the apex autonomous body to grant accreditation in the country, sent a team to evaluate four academic programmes of Sasurie College of Engineering, Vijayamangalam, Erode, in Tamil Nadu. The institute was already approved by the All India Council of Technical Education. The team found that apart from various weaknesses, it had one faculty member – Venkata Subba Raju Ganja – who claimed to have a Ph.D from Allahabad University.

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“dailytimes.com.pk”, Pakistan on 27th June 2011 : In order to earn fistful amount of money to live a better and save future, citizens of Pakistan striving for their better future and earnings ultimately fall prey to traps of unscrupulous agents and earn a bad name to themselves and their country. According to Daily Times findings in Islamabad District Court 25 cases were registered against the persons who were allegedly involved in submitting fake document to go abroad for study/visit…..In the row not only boys but also girls are involved in submitting fake documents for visa purposes. Ayesha Rafiq, submitted a fake MBA degree issued by a local university with UAE embassy. An FIR was registered against her on suspicion of fake documents.

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“dnaindia.com”, India on 23rd June 2011 : An educational institute offering fake short-term MBA degrees was busted by an NGO in Nashik on Thursday. According to sources, Apex Institute of Management on College Road in Nashik, was known to offer MBA degrees in a short time and for a certain fee. Jitendra Avhad Foundation claimed that after receiving many complaints from students against the institute, members of the Foundation decided to look into the matter. One of the activists took admission at the institute in January by paying Rs. 28,000. After a few months, he was given a certificate with an MBA degree.

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“thenews.com.pk”, Pakistan on 23rd June 2011 : Chairman Board of Intermediate Education Karachi (BIEK) Anwar Ahmed Zai on Wednesday cancelled the examination forms of four candidates for submitting fake documents……According to the BIEK, at least four students have submitted fake documents and marks sheets of their matriculation examinations. The students who submitted fake documents are Maria Saleem, Daughter of Muhammad Saleem, a student of Pre-Medical group at Bahria College Karsaz, Adnan Yousuf, son of Muhammad Yousuf enrolled in Commerce group at Government Degree Boys College KMC, Nishtar Road, Ameena Malik, Daughter of Abdul Qadeer Malik of Pre-Medical group at Bahria College NORE and Syed Irfan Ali, son of Syed Akber Ali of Aqra Intermediate College Commerce group.

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“nation.com.pk”, Pakistan on 19th June 2011 : PML-N Lawyers Wing has issued a charge sheet against former federal law minister Dr Babar Awan of having a fake doctorate degree, facing trial for illegally grabbing plot and being accused of receiving kickbacks in Bank of Punjab scam. To counter the PPP attack against Punjab Law Minister Rana Sanaullah on his statement against Dr Babar Awan as well as the petition moved for registration of a criminal case against the law minister, PML-N lawyers have also announced to file a writ petition against Awan to seek his disqualification as advocate on various charges. Addressing a press conference, PML-N Lawyers Forum leaders here on Saturday that the PPP is stretching the issue of Rana Sana’s alleged statement out of proportion in order to cover up its own failures of governance as well as corruption it has been continuing since inception in power.

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“dailytimes.com.pk”, Pakistan on 19th June 2011: Daily Times conducted a case study after collecting various evidences. A man namely Nasir Mehmood, posing to be a lawyer, threatened number of citizens, deceived them and borrowed money from many others. Nasir is a residence of Begumpura limits, and he had somehow managed to get the membership of the Punjab Bar Council (PBC) since 2003. Nasir holds a fake LLB degree from the Punjab University. More than eight FIRs have been filed against him, including a murder case, FIR no 325/2008 in Baghbanpura Police Station. Nasir, with the help of land mafia, approached Mehmood Booti area and showed fake documents of a plot, showing him as the owner, which was actually owned by late Muhammad Riaz.

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“234next.com”, Nigeria on 20th June 2011 : A 40-year-old man who has been working as a doctor in the Suleja General Hospital has been discovered to be a fraud. Bamigboye Olusegun was arrested by the police after a mother filed a complaint that the surgery he purportedly performed on her son for hernia did not in fact take place. …..A suspicious hospital management began to question the qualification of the ‘doctor.’ ….Mr Olusegun, who graduated from the Institute of Medical Laboratory Technology, University of Jos, Plateau State confessed that he bought the certificate for N5000 from one Baba Abolaji, a messenger in the office of the medical director of the University of Ilorin Teaching Hospital, Ilorin, Kwara State.

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“ocregister.com”, USA on 13th June 2011 : A Garden Grove Korean-born pastor was sentenced Monday to one year in prison for visa fraud and money laundering, charges that stemmed from a fake religious university he ran in Fullerton to help foreign students obtain visas. U.S. District Court Judge James Selna also sentenced Samuel Chai Cho Oh, 66, to an additional 12 months in home confinement, Assistant U.S. Attorney Robert Keenan said. Oh pleaded guilty in January to all 12 counts he was charged with in an indictment – 10 of visa fraud and two of money laundering, Keenan said…..He charged $5,000 to $10,000 for college diplomas and another $3,000 to $5,000 for fraudulent visa documents, Speidel said.

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“The Times of India”, India on 15th June 2011 : A 46-year-old Allahabad University graduate and three of his associates have been arrested for allegedly selling fake Class 10 and 12 certificates. The arrested have been identified as Mange Ram Acharya (46), Dilip Kumar Shukla (42), Manoj Kumar Mishra (31) and Dharamjeet Singh (21). Acharya, the kingpin of the fake education racket, also nurses political ambitions and is fond of using beacon lights on his private vehicles. A car has been recovered from him, said cops. He has allegedly issued “thousands of fake certificates” so far. He has contested elections to Parliament, Assembly and the MCD from trans-Yamuna areas in 1996, 1998 and 1999. He was planning to contest the forthcoming assembly elections in Uttar Pradesh from Mathura, claimed cops.

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