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-Lurid Crime Tales-
Spain: 27 nabbed in fraud case involving fake Peruvian diplomas
2008-10-23
(SomaliNet) Twenty-seven people have been arrested, in a fraud case involving fake diplomas from Peruvian universities. Sources say some of them purchasers of the forged documents.

According to police, the forgers provided false diplomas for, among others, doctors, psychologists, engineers, architects and pharmacists. The documents cost 18,000 euros apiece and were shipped from Alicante and Malaga.

Several of those arrested had used the fake diplomas to gain work in private Spanish clinics where the tasks they have carried out included implanting silicone, injecting Botox and writing doctor's prescriptions.
Posted by:Fred

#6  Peruvian University Diplomas? WTF? Got my PhD in turning coca leaves into powdered cocaine, humping it over the mountains selling it to Colombians.
Posted by: Last Breath Farm Resident   2008-10-23 18:05  

#5  Fake diplomas can get immigrants jobs here with H1B visas, too. Because Medicare reimburses doctors below costs plus the high cost of malpractice insurance, many have quit practicing or refuse to see patients without private insuramce. Many competitive schools discouraged nurses and doctors for years, steering them into other fields. The professional shortage is filled with foreign doctors who will work for less, especially if they don't have $100,000 in educational debt. When government contractors such as Rockwell lays off employees and hires foreign engineers from nations that should be watched because they pose a potential security or espionage risk, this beomes another major loophole for terrorists to relocate under the radar. Besides, who wants a quack to butcher you in surgery even if it is deeply discounted?
Posted by: Thealing Borgia 122   2008-10-23 12:43  

#4  Love the the graphic. So minimalist and yet so pithy. I take it that book is the only one used throughout the coursework.
Posted by: ed   2008-10-23 12:11  

#3  Is the diploma blue?
Posted by: bigjim-ky   2008-10-23 12:04  

#2  Now, I suppose you're going to question my diploma from Curacao? It's either an island or a drink, I forget which.
Posted by: Richard of Oregon   2008-10-23 11:10  

#1  Now say you wanted a fake diploma.
Would you buy one from Peru?
Posted by: bigjim-ky   2008-10-23 10:37  

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