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University Lecturer accused of Fake degree in UAE

Lecturer with fake degree

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A University lecturer who allegedly forged an education degree for a doctoral degree is facing trial at an Abu Dhabi Court, the Khaleej Times reported.

Abu Dhabi Court of First Instance which is the largest court of the Judicial Department in Abu Dhabi is hearing the case. The court heard that after his bosses found out that his doctoral papers were fake, the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) national, a member of the university media faculty, had been reported to authorities.

According to the court records, the forgery was exposed, when the defendant put up his doctoral thesis credentials along with his thesis supervisors names online on social media, claiming he had graduated from a well-known university in the region.

This alerted one of the supervisors, who then raised a concern at the university, claiming that the Ph.D. certificate must be fake as he had never supervised the defendant’s thesis.

The Arab university informed UAE College where the defendant was teaching about the alleged fake degree.

The man denied the accusations in court, emphasizing that he studied at the university and worked on the thesis. The defendant said he was accompanied by his country’s deputy ambassador during his first trip to the Arab university in 2016 and met with the president of the academic institution. He said that the president had ordered his team to assist him with the demands, and stated that it took him three years to complete the degree.

He said he was shocked when university authorities called; asking him if he knew his Ph.D. was a fake one. The defendant’s lawyer argued that if any discrepancy had occurred, it could have been in the education services office of the university. He further stated that the office had confirmed the fact about an embassy staff attending the discussion for his client’s thesis paper.

The lawyer said the defendant never submitted a doctoral certificate to the University of the UAE to obtain the job or a promotion. He pointed out that the prosecutor’s witnesses also made contradictory statements.

 

 

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