"The INQUIRER", Liberia on 03rd April 2012 : About seventy teachers have been dismissed from public schools in Greenville Sinoe County. In a communication to the county Educational Officer, Harrison Jelleh, the Deputy Minister for Instruction at the Ministry of Education, Mator Kpangbai based the mass dismissal on “fake academic credentials.” Those affected are Odessa Gray, Victoria Charlie, Dennis Swen, Forka Walker, Jet Toteh, Miller Koto, Clarence Nyenpan, Watson Fulka, Alphonso Chea, William Dormah, Richard Kongar, Francis Tarpeh Toh, Jackson Tugbah, Blessing Kpedyu, Nagbe Tarpeh, Isaiah Snohgbae, Lawrence Kula, Lawrence Momoh, Lovettee Potepa, Marie Quaeteh, Thomas Pantur, Waynamah Kleh, Sheagbeh Peal, Oconna Tweh, Josiah Jarboe Toe Kun, Tiah Dorjue, Abraham Jley Weltee, Calvio Birch, Patrick Geekor, Bobby Tawone, Marie Doe, Jackson Boye, Orlando Dorbor and James Powo.

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"miamiherald.com", USA on 07th December 2011: From a simple gated apartment in Little Havana, Maria Del Consuelo Fernandez advertised an elaborate school for health workers across the county to get trained in the intricacies of CPR (Cardiopulmanary resuscitation), infection control and even consoling the mentally ill. People would arrive in scrubs to get certificates to land jobs at assisted living facilities, group homes and even as private school bus drivers. But all along, the 56-year-old woman was running a diploma mill – with no training – taking wads of cash over the fence and giving her customers fake certificate, prosecutors say. Fernandez was among 20 people arrested Wednesday in an undercover investigation into one of Miami-Dade’s burgeoning illegal industries: cash for credentials.

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"thanhniennews.com", Vietnam on 13th August 2011 : The Communist Party Unit of the southern province of Ba Ria – Vung Tau has asked the state-owned Agribank to dismiss a vice director of its branch there for using a fake diploma and degree. Nguyen Ngoc Khai, who is also the acting director of the Agribank branch in Ba Ria – Vung Tau, was expelled from the Party unit as part of the same decision Friday. The provincial Party Unit committee said Khai, 52, used a fake high school diploma, a fake college degree and a fake English certificate as credentials for his job. Khai has denied any wrongdoing, according to the committee.

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“vanguardngr.com”, Nigeria on 31st May 2011 : Few days to the inauguration of the Edo State House of Assembly, a lawmaker-elect into the state legislature to represent Esan Central Constituency, Mr. Victor Sabor Edoror, has been accused of using fake credentials to gain admission into the Ambrose Alli University, Ekpoma. Meanwhile, Edoror has denied the allegation, insisting that he graduated from the institution in 2003 with a Bachelor of Engineering Second Class Honours and obtained a Master of Business Administration in 2010 from the same institution. A group, Concerned Citizens from Esan Central, which made the accusation in a petition to the university, is demanding the withdrawal of degrees awarded to the lawmaker-elect.

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“officer.com”, USA on 25th May 2011 : U.S. Marshal’s arrested Michael James Beach, the man accused of impersonating a police officer in Seattle in order to carjack several victims, in Beaverton, Oregon, on Tuesday afternoon, the Seattle Police Department said on its blog. Beach allegedly carried out his crimes near Seattle University and even used fake credentials to try to ask one of his victims out, police said. Police said Beach was unarmed and cooperative during his arrest in Oregon.

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“234next.com”, Nigeria on 05th May 2011 : A university lecturer, Daniel Ishola Owoademi, 51, has been sentenced to one year imprisonment by the chief magistrate of the Magistrate Court 1, Isa Mohammed, for teaching at the Abubakar Tafawa Balewa University in Bauchi with fake credentials for 12 years. The prosecutor, Iliya Bitrus, an inspector of police, had earlier told the court that “the chief security officer of the university, Garkuwa Ilimi, had reported to the police on behalf of the institution that the governing council of the university had discovered that one Daniel Ishola Owoade, a lecturer with the institute, possessed fake credentials such as testimonials, HND certificate, which he claimed he obtained from an institution in USA, and a B.Sc. which he also claimed was issued by the university in Canada, which he used to secure employment with the university in April 4th, 1999.”

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“therepublic.com”, USA on 27th April 2011 : A West Virginia coal miner was suspended for a year and barred from working as a supervisor for three more after a state panel determined Wednesday that he used phony credentials to work as an underground mine foreman in charge of conducting safety examinations. The Coal Mine Safety Board of Appeals also suspended Ronnie Britton II’s surface and underground miner certificates, all of which require training and testing, as well as his apprentice certificates. A third certificate based solely on experience and a $10 fee was revoked permanently. The decision essentially keeps Britton from working in the coal industry for at least a year. The state Office of Miners’ Health Safety and Training had requested a lifetime ban saying an uncertified foreman endangers miners.

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“ohio.com”, USA on 23rd April 2011 : Over the years, he has conned his way, using bogus credentials, into a slew of jobs – from a police chief in Florida to a city manager in Alaska……This week, Randall Thomas Keyser was caught. Area FBI agents and federal prosecutors accuse the West Virginia man of wire fraud in playing the role of a decorated two-star major general with the U.S. Army to get an executive position with an Akron construction company. ”It’s kind of outrageous,” said assistant U.S. Attorney Robert Bulford. ”Anybody who served our country and sees this I think will be outraged.” FBI agents arrested Keyser, 56, after he left Tri-C Construction offices Thursday.

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“indianexpress.com”, India on 17th March 2011 : National carrier Air India grounded Capt Arjun Giare on Wednesday for alleged irregularities in obtaining his pilot’s licence. Giare became the fifth pilot to be caught in the country with fake credentials, after the arrest of an Indigo woman pilot and an Air India commander last week. The airline has de-rostered the pilot, pending an inquiry for allegedly submitting a forged Class 10 certificate to show that he met the minimum age limit to become a pilot, said a senior airline executive.

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“Sun-Sentinel.com”, USA on 20th December 2010 : At least nine people obtained licenses in the past year to work in Florida as nurses, even though the credentials they used to get them were fake, according to documents obtained . One person has been criminally charged. They were among more than 30 who applied for licenses with transcripts from the Academy for Practical Nursing and Health Occupations in West Palm Beach, even though they had not finished or never attended the school…….The woman who obtained the LPN certificate, Huberle Gregoire, 51, of suburban West Palm Beach, was charged Aug. 3 with practicing medicine without an active license, a felony. Gregoire paid $18,000 in 2008 for the academy’s 17-month program but flunked out in 2009. Even so, she got a West Virginia license in December 2009 that she used to get a Florida license, sheriff’s reports say.

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“Business Recorder”, Pakistan on 29th November 2010 : The Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) has warned the legislators alleged for having fake credentials of initiating one-sided proceedings against them if they failed to appear before its committee probing the matter here today (Monday). The special committee of the ECP will take up the cases of 13 parliamentarians including two provincial ministers in a bid to provide them an opportunity to justify their academic degrees. …….In this respect, Syed Aqil Shah, Minister for Sports from Khyber Pakhtunkhwa and Nadir Magsi, Minister for Food from Sindh have been summoned by the committee. The committee will also take up the cases of two senators from Balochistan including Mohabbat Khan Marri, who got invalid degree from University of Sindh and Rehana Yahya Baloch. Three members of National Assembly are appearing before the committee to justify their bogus degrees they include, Jawad Hussain of NA 39, Mazhar Hyatt from NA 138, and Muhammad Salman Mohsin from NA 165. Legislators from Punjab Assembly asked by the committee to appear include Siama Aziz, Syeda Majida Rizvi, Saima Khar and Samina Khawar Hayat. Bashir Ahmad Khan from PS 56 and Sardar Ali from PS 34 from Sindh will be appearing before the Committee to present argument in favour of their alleged bogus degrees.

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“The Nigerian Observer”, Nigeria on 19th October 2010 :……two final year students of the Polytechnic have been expelled for fraudulently gaining admission with fake credentials. The expelled students are: Egbeagbor A. Sunday, HND II, Department of Statistics and Patience Osarenoa Omorogbe, HND II, Computer Science.

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