Background Checks | Diploma Fraud

Fake degree case: Court issues arrest warrant against KP minister

diplomafraud October 17, 2012 0

A court in Peshawar on Wednesday issued an arrest warrant for Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Minister for Sports and Tourism Syed Aqil Shah for submitting a fake graduation degree during the general elections of 2008, DawnNews

Fake nurse busted

diplomafraud October 15, 2012 0

A South Carolina woman has admitted to working as a nurse and nursing instructor for the past 27 years despite having never earned a nursing degree. Investigators with the State Law Enforcement Division say Denise

Leaders warned on use of fake degrees

diplomafraud October 12, 2012 0

Politicians who present fake academic certificates to get clearance to run for office in the coming General Election will be disqualified and prosecuted, the electoral commission has warned. Electoral commission chairman Ahmed Issack Hassan said

Former lab chief had fake degree

diplomafraud October 12, 2012 0

Annie Dookhan, the former drug lab chemist at the heart of an evidence-tampering scandal at Jamaica Plain’s State Laboratory Institute, is facing charges that include lying about holding a master’s degree. While state officials

Fake engineer and a deadly building

diplomafraud October 11, 2012 1

THE former construction manager of the deadly Canterbury Television building stole the identity of a professional engineer and faked an engineering degree, it can be revealed. Gerald Shirtcliff, now 67, supervised the construction of the

DC office clerk held in fake documents racket

diplomafraud October 10, 2012 0

A clerk in the office of the deputy commissioner here is one of the two people under arrest on a charge of making fake documents as part of an interstate criminal network. The fake

Education Verification Fraud on the Increase

diplomafraud October 10, 2012 0

There has been an increase in education verification fraud. Some employment candidates claim graduation and are only verified as enrollment only. Some of the candidates never went to that school at all

$22.7 million ‘diploma mill’ judgment for Flint woman, other plaintiffs, only a small victory, experts say

diplomafraud October 9, 2012 0

The business of “life experience degrees” took a blow when Pakistani businessman Salem Kureshi and his companies Belford High School and Belford University lost a $22.7 million federal class-action lawsuit earlier this year, but