Vietnam - Commune officials disciplined for using fake diplomas

The Party Committee’s Commission for Inspection in Tu Nghia District, Quang Ngai Province, has given a warning to two leaders of the Nghia My commune for using fake high school diplomas.

The disciplined officials are Luong Phuoc Hong, the secretary of the commune Party Committee, and Nguyen Minh Tan, chairman of the commune People’s Committee.

To meet the qualifications required for the position they held, the two men had borrowed the real diplomas from their acquaintances, erased the diploma holders’ name, and took out the photos and other personal details. Then they put in their own names, attached their own photos and claimed the degree was theirs, the commission said.

The fake diplomas were later included in their personal files, which they used to win the election for the commune people’s council last May.

Talking with Tuoi Tre, Nguyen Duc Van, the commission’s chairman, said the agency has asked the district People’s Committee to take disciplinary actions against them.

Several similar cases have recently been discovered in other provinces.

In July this year, the Huong Tra District Party Committee in Thua Thien-Hue Province removed Truong Van Dung from his post as secretary of Huong Toan Commune Party Committee for using a fake high school diploma.

In August, Duong Thanh Thi, chairman of the Lien Chieu District People’s Committee in Da Nang, received a disciplinary reprimand from the city’s Party Committee for faking a high school diploma.

In another case, which was much more serious, Nguyen Ngoc Khai, 52, Party Committee’s secretary and acting director of a branch of the Agriculture and Rural Development Bank of Vietnam in Ba Ria-Vung Tau Province, was ousted from the Communist Party of Vietnam on August 12 for using three counterfeit high-school certificates, a fake advanced political theory certificate, and a false English level-C certificate.

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