140 forged certificates detected in 7 yrs
The Ministry of Higher Education (MoHE), from 2015 until 2021, has discovered 140 forged certificates that were submitted for accreditation through the automated systems implemented by the Ministry to authenticate university degrees for 133 people, reports Al-Qabas daily. The Undersecretary of Higher Education, Dr. Subeih Al-Mukhaizeem, said the ministry’s efforts were to develop and implement mechanisms to combat forgery in university and professional certificates, and to set objective criteria for their equivalency, in a discussion session of the Public Anti-Corruption Authority (Nazaha), in the presence of its president, Eng. Abdulaziz Al-Ibrahim and its Acting Secretary General, Dr. Muhammad Buzbar. Al-Mukhaizeem revealed the ministry has won 93% of the cases filed against it from certificate holders whose certificates were refused equivalency, for not meeting the necessary conditions, especially those issued by the Philippines, India, Slovakia and the University of Athens in America, while other cases are pending before the courts.
During the presentation, Al-Mukhaizeem confirmed that the ministry, in turn, is taking the necessary measures for the forged certificates and referring them to the Public Prosecution, indicating that it has referred all the files it has to the legal authorities, in addition to following up on the merits of the investigations.
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