“english.vietnamnet.vn”, Vietnam on 26th July 2011 : Dong Nai Province police have arrested Nguyen Thanh Trung, director of the Vocational Training and Employment Services B-Hoa II Co., Ltd., and his son for forging diplomas, health certificates, and seals. Trung and his 19-year-old son, Nguyen Thanh An, would be tried for “counterfeiting documents and seals of agencies and organizations,” said the provincial Security Investigation Police Department. From a tip-off from the public, the police conducted a raid on the company, located in Long Binh Ward, Bien Hoa City, on Saturday and seized fake vocational training certificates, university and high school diplomas, medical check-up certificates, and documents and seals of many agencies, including people’s committees and police departments.

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"deccanherald.com", India on 25th July 2011 : Nandini Layout police arrested the chief of a charitable trust on the charge of cheating and recovered documents, three cellphones, a computer and fake undergraduate certificate of Osmania University, Hyderabad. The suspect, K T Gurumurthy (36) of Vijayanandnagar, Nandini Layout, runs Srishti Charitable Trust at Vijayanandnagar. Police said Gurumurthy prepared the fake BSc degree certificate of Osmania University, Hyderabad.

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"indiatoday.intoday.in", India on 23rd July 2011 : It is never too late to start again – especially in crime. A 90-year-old man, undeterred by a jail sentence, has churned out fake medical degrees in near-industrial quantities becoming, arguably, the single biggest operator of his kind in the country. Medical authorities and the government have put Balwant Rai Arora under the scanner for allegedly producing at least 50,000 fake doctors in Delhi and the NCR over the last 15 years – since 1995, when he began his racket. All these 'degrees' have been given by the so-called Delhi Medical College, a fake institute which he runs from his home in Vipin Garden in the Uttam Nagar area of west Delhi.

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"english.vietnamnet.vn, Vietnam on 26th July 2011 : Inspectors have found out that the director of the State Bank of Vietnam’s branch in Bac Lieu province does not have a high school diploma. After one month of inspection, the Bac Lieu Provincial Inspectorate Committee concluded that Mr. Ho Thai Nguyen has committed several wrongdoings in credit lending and education transparency. According to the conclusion, Mr. Nguyen, director of the State Bank of Vietnam (central bank)’s branch in Bac Lieu does not have a high school diploma but nevertheless has obtained a university degree. Nguyen claimed that he did graduate from high school but lost the diploma…..Just this month, Truong Van Dung, the secretary (i.e head) of Huong Toan commune Communist Party Committee in Thua Thien Hue province was found using a fake high school diploma.

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"miaminewtimes.com", USA on 28th July 2011 : Rashaad Easterling was shooting hoops in the gymnasium at Goulds Park when a looming, sharply dressed man with a long scar under his left eye jogged over to him. "Come to my school," he told the 17-year-old matter-of-factly, referring to Choice Preparatory School, the outfit in a corner of the tiny park building. He promised Rashaad that after a stint at his private school, the kid could get a sports scholarship to any top college he wanted. The man, Antron Wright, then made the same pitch to Rashaad's bone-thin mom, Roslyn, who lives in the projects across the street from the gym. He told her he'd get Rashaad a McKay Scholarship – a state-funded tuition voucher for students with disabilities – despite the fact that the kid, who earned good grades at Miami Southridge Senior High, didn't have a disability.

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"The Times of India", India on 26th July 2011 : Two youths were in fake marksheet racket by Bharuch crime branch officials on the charges of producing fake marksheets and certificates in Ankleshwar on Monday. Four pair of marksheets, certificates, a printer and various CDs of softwares were seized from their possession. Edwin Rajwadi and Kamlesh Patel were former students of an Ahmedabad-based institute of technology. Edwin and Kamlesh with the help of Devang Rawal of Savarkundla were printing marksheets of RP Institute of Technology and certificates of Gujarat Technical Education Board.

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"The Times of India", India on 26th July 2011 : A security guard at Mira Bhayander Municipal Corporation (MBMC) got an extraordinary promotion earlier this year and was made the civic body’s Public Relation Officer (PRO). Sachin Chavathe’s credentials, a diploma certificate in journalism from Patna University, were pretty much in place but for two things: the university doesn’t offer any such course and Chavathe never studied there. As it turned out, Chavathe, who was a Std XII pass-out in Marathi medium, had forged his documents. Thane Sessions Court has now ordered the Bhayander police to register a case against the fraud and four senior MBMC officials, including the civic body’s former Commissioner. No arrests have been made so far.

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“timesofindia.indiatimes.com”, India on 24th July 2011 : The member of a gang involved in making forged documents, like certificates and marksheets of different academic institutions and university, fell in the police net on Saturday. The police also recovered forged documents in a large number, computer and other accessories, and seals. According to reports, acting on a tip-off, the police raided a rented house in Nayi Basti Pandeypur and arrested one Vikash Mishra, a resident of Gopepur village under Cholapur police station. Kingpin of the gang Dilip Mishra, who is the relative of the arrested person, was absconding.

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“daily.bhaskar.com”, India on 25th July 2011 : After the arrest on Friday of four people allegedly involved in selling fake degrees, the police have uncovered the name of a fifth person who could be one of the key people behind the whole scam. According to the Amraiwadi police, a person named Samir Younus Piparwal is also involved in the fake degree racket but they have not been able to arrest him as he has gone underground. Following further investigation, the police raided Aeroline Press, located in Shubh complex, Navrangpura, where the fake certificates were printed. Sources said the police found brochures and other documents printed in the name of National Education Management and Technology Studies (NEMTS), the institute the racketeers had opened for the scam. The racketeers used to issue the fake degrees in the institute’s name for a hefty fee.

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“gulfnews.com”, United Arab Emirates on 21st July 2011 : Authorities in Bihar jailed 15 individuals who masqueraded as doctors and issued notices to 70 pathology clinics run by officials with fake qualifications. Most of the arrested doctors, who ran well set-up clinics, were not qualified to practise medicine. Some of them had trained in the ancient art of treatment. However, they are accused of putting up big boards outside their clinics, which were successful practices……S. Vishwas, also known as Soni and one of the arrested fake doctors, was a classic case of playing reckless with the lives of common men. Officials said the 35-year-old “doctor” who ran Vishwas Nursing Home, off Doctors Bazar, which is locally known as post-mortem road, held an intermediate degree in arts but she was passed herself off as a leading gynaecologist.

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“jamaicaobserver.com”, Jamaica on 24th July 2011 : Questions are being asked about a local nursing school after New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman last week named it in the investigation of an elaborate criminal network that set up bogus nursing schools throughout that US metropolis……According to officials, the list of schools believed to be involved include: International Language and Professional Network, Inc. (ILPN) located on Flatbush Avenue, Brooklyn; Life-VTEC, located at Jamaica Avenue, Queens Village; Hope-VTEC aka J Allrich Productions, Inc., Hope Nursing Tutorial Services, and Tutorial Nursing Prep, located at Hempstead Turnpike, Franklin Square; Helping Angels Foundation of America (HAFA) which operated at two locations: Brooklyn and Long Island; and Envision Review Center on Flatbush Avenue, Brooklyn.

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“indiatoday.intoday.in”, India on 24th July 2011 : Yoga-guru Baba Ramdev’s close aide Acharya Balakrishna has landed in fresh trouble after controversies regarding his citizenship and nationality erupted last month. Balakrishna has come under the scanner of the CBI for obtaining fake degrees of a university in Varanasi. The matter came to light after a CBI team visited Sampurna Nand Sanskrit University in Varanasi to check the authenticity of the certificates produced by Balakrishna for various government works. The two-member team headed by CBI officer Yogesh Singh reached the university with the degrees issued in the name of Balakrishna by Radhakrishna Sanskrit Mahavidyalaya in Khurja district.

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