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Cleaning crew at state buildings accused of using fake documents to get jobs
Nine janitorial workers suspected of using fictitious documents to get jobs and their manager were arrested in a raid of state office buildings in Phoenix. Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio says the raid that resulted
Read More »Fake certificates unit busted
A city police team has busted a gang making counterfeit degree certificates and marksheets, and seized over 300 fake stamps and an equal number of bogus certificates. The police said a few days ago, a
Read More »Father-of-nine used fake passport to enrol son year early at school
A father-of-nine used a fake birth certificate and passport to enrol his son in school a year early because his wife couldn't cope. Shahazad Aslam registered his son at a primary school in Fife in
Read More »Kenyan politician in row over ‘fake’ Ugandan degree
Yet another Kenyan politician has become embroiled in a row over the legitimacy of his academic qualifications. It is the latest of a string of scandals involving politicians trying to meet the legal threshold
Read More »Thousands of Chandra Mohan Jha University degrees to be invalid
A day after Meghalaya government approved dissolution of Chandra Mohan Jha University (CMJU), thousands of allegedly fake degrees awarded by it to students across the country have become null and void. The Meghalaya government's
Read More »Crackdown on fake passport applications
Passports will not be issued to Myanmar workers who apply for them in Thailand with fake documents, the Ministry of Labour, Employment and Social Affairs has warned. Workers whose visas have expired run the risk
Read More »Six passengers with illegal documents arrested
Immigration personnel on Wednesday arrested six passengers with fake documents from the Allama Iqbal International airport
Read More »Federal government charges Oklahoma telephone company, its owner and vendor with fraud
An Oklahoma telephone company, its owner and a vendor have been charged by federal authorities in a $25 million scheme to defraud a federal telephone subsidy program for low-income customers, officials said. Wesley Yui Chew,
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