"PakTribune", Pakistan on 20th February 2012 : The Sindh University has declared degrees of nine officers of the Accountant General (AG) Sindh as fake. According to the sources, these nine officers were appointed by the then Director General (DG) Audit in 2007 in Audit Department and they were transferred to the office of Accountant General Sindh after two years with important responsibilities and some of them were transferred to other cities of Sindh. The sources said that those who were appointed on fake degrees are kith and kin of each other and three of them are real brothers. The names of those who were appointed are Asif Aftab s/o Aftab Ali Setho, Farhan Ahmad s/o Ghulam Murtaza Setho, Shiraz Ahmad s/o Madid Ali Setho, Javed Ahmad s/o Aftab Ahmad Setho, Mujeebur Rehman s/o Mumtaz Ali Setho, Shahzada Saeed Ahmad s/o Raees Aftab Ahmad Setho, Shahzada Shaukat Ali s/o Raish Ahmad Setho, Ziaur Rehman s/o Mumtaz Ali Setho and Adnan Pasha s/o Aftab Ali Setho.

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"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 be used as grounds for the review of a large number of criminal cases, which he was involved in, the newspaper writes. "The lack of higher education may be grounds to review cases in which he participated, as well as the provision of low-quality legal services, which is a violation of the right for defense," Kommersant quoted the chairman of the Bar Association, Vladimir Zherebenkov, under whose guidance Oreshnikov had worked for many years.

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"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 accused person was a fake medical doctor and guilty of the three count charge brought against him by the state prosecution……..The accused was also charged for tendering fake secondary school certificate, which was discovered after a visit to the secondary school he allegedly attended in Abeokuta.

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"Vanguard", Nigeria on 21st February 2012 : A member representing Bauchi Central Constituency in the state House of Assembly, Alhaji Yakubu Mohammed on the platform of Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, has been dragged before a chief magistrate’s court in the state over alleged forgery of his primary school certificate. The plaintiff, Alhaji Ibrahim Angale, was a member of the Assembly who represented the same constituency on the platform of Congress for Progressive Change, CPC.

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"nj.com", USA on 14th February 2012 : The president of Kean University, who is facing charges he misrepresented his academic credentials on resumes, said he will respect the decision the university’s governing board reaches when they meet Wednesday. In an interview with The Star-Ledger, Dawood Farahi said he understands the seriousness of the allegations, but he criticized members of the faculty union who brought the issue to the board of trustees and seek his dismissal as a "reckless" group who have a vendetta against him. In his nine years as president, Farahi has constantly battled with union members who claim he does not put education first and has buried the school in debt. But the 63-year-old president said he is steadfast in his belief that he has made the right decisions in leading the 16,000-student public university, pointing to the school’s rise in enrollment and its pristine campus. Farahi acknowledged, however, his reform efforts have not endeared himself to professors, whom he asked to work harder, hold more office hours and submit time sheets.

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"The Asian Age", India on 13th February 2012 : The Delhi police has booked a girl student for allegedly submitting forged certificate of marks to get admission at the prestigious Ramjas College where an admission racket was busted by the police last year. Police officials said the accused, Sonam Sethi, a resident of Sonepat, Haryana, had submitted a fake marks certificate to get admission in the B.Com, course offered by Delhi University at Ramjas College in May last year. Sources said the accused had allegedly sought help of the racket which was busted by the crime branch last year for procuring the forged marks certificate and had allegedly paid the gang a good sum for procuring the same.

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"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 be stripped of the honoured academic title of Professor. "I wish to submit that an investigation be carried out to find out how Dr Baryamureeba got promoted to Associate Professor and later to full Professor in the face of all glaring malpractices shrouded in lies and trickery," he wrote. It is alleged that the former Dean of the Faculty of Computing and Information Science never supervised 15 of the 28 graduate students he claimed to have supervised because there is no record to show he was officially assigned.

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"News Day", Zimbabwe on 09th February 2012 : The five Tonderai Muchongwe, Lloyd Chime, Paul Tinago, Dickson Kaguda and their ring leader Tinashe Imbayago were charged with fraud when they appeared at a Banket circuit court on Monday. State counsel Farai Zachariah told the court that on January 24, the five went to Inkomo Mechanised Brigade in Nyabira where the army was recruiting prospective soldiers. They produced counterfeit copies of their O Level certificates to the recruiting officer identified as Shadreck Masiya. Masiya became suspicious when he noticed that Imbayagos certificate did not look original. He reported the matter to his superiors who in turn alerted police in Nyabira. Further investigations revealed all five of the men had fake documents.

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"The Asian Age", India on 04th February 2012 : The saga of fake admissions in Ramjas College seems to be far from over. After the Delhi police busted a racket involved in making forged marksheets for enabling students get admission in the college, another dubious admission on the basis of a forged marksheet has surfaced in the college. Top police sources disclosed that last week the college authorities detected that a first year student of B.Com., identified as Jitesh Gohri, had submitted forged marksheet to get admission in the college. Gohri, a resident of Kota, Rajasthan, was admitted to the college on May 30 last year on the basis of a forged Class 12 marksheet.

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"Times of India", India on 04th February 2012 : The Devi Ahilya Vishwavidyalaya (DAVV) fake marksheet and degree scam exposed an international connection with the arrest of the proprietor of a city-based coaching institute, Mukesh Verma, running Bright Careers Coaching Institute here, is said to be the alleged kingpin of the racket. The city police on Friday claimed to have arrested Verma, from the institute on the Sapna-Sangita road and identified two of his accomplices, who are reportedly absconding. Investigations have revealed that Verma had allegedly been running the racket since 2006 and sold thousands of fake academic certificates to people across the country and even abroad. Names of two UK-based persons, who have allegedly procured the fake certificates from the accused, have also come up during the investigation. Unconfirmed reports said that some non-resident Indians were also reportedly the clients of the racket, which police refused to comment.

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"DNA", India on 02nd February 2012 : For the second time in just 12 days, Trio World International School’s ex-headmaster, Paul Meekin, was arrested by the police. This time it is for allegedly providing fake documents to get the headmaster’s post at the school. The school management verified his educational certificates and found he had submitted fake documents of his PhD (Doctor of Philosophy). Kodigehalli police arrested Meekin, a British national and a resident of Sahakaranagar, based on a complaint filed by the Trio International World School, from where he was recently sacked after he was arrested on charges of sexually harassing a 14-year-old student of his school.

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"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 – before becoming a teacher at Westlands School in Torquay, Devon.

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