Asian expat gets one-year jail for counterfeiting document
By Taita the slave •
A Doha Criminal Court has sentenced an Asian expatriate to one year in jail and ordered his subsequent deportation for counterfeiting an official document.
According to local Arabic daily Arrayah, the defendant had submitted — in the relevant attestation department — a university degree certificate in Economics in his name to get it officially stamped.
However, the official there doubted the authenticity of the document and informed the authorities concerned about the matter. Eventually, the document was found to be a counterfeited one.
The court convicted the man of colluding with unidentified persons for counterfeiting an official document and submitting it knowingly to a government entity.
Courtesy: gulf-times.com
Maybe the Asian was interested but afraid to go to college? Or he didn't know which area it was in?
@ WT - I agree with you, I know many people we graduated from prestigious university, but don't have the best jobs or jobs they should be doing.
@ shameerpvt - for your reference, check the rankings here. https://www.timeshighereducation.com/world-university-rankings/2016/world-ranking#!/page/0/length/25/sort_by/rank_label/sort_order/asc/cols/rank_only
It's not the university who gets a Nobel Prize. It's the student who gets it once he left university and forgot everything they taught him. So, what is the property for the ranking? The number of students who pass? The accessibility by car? The quality of the food in the Mensa? Or the number of female students registered?
The "Rankings" are dubious. There is no standard of how and what is measured. They are more or less 'sales arguments'.
@ zackm : Thanks for your response. Is there any means that I could look into Country-wise / University-wise / Degree-wise rankings in order to get a better picture of the quality of education & its disparity; specially when you get applicants from around the world, like in the Gulf.
This is true .. Rizks got his qualification from M.I.T (Muchiripattinam Institute for Taverners)
@shameepvt - You heard not wrong my friend, how can you compare a degree from Harvard, Stanford, MIT, McGill, Queen's College, King's College, Imperial College as to the others one out there. You get what you paid for, if you can afford a better education to get a better job...why not...you are investing for your future....right!?!
I have heard that degrees of some countries are less valued & some countries are highly recognised. In such disparity in educational standards; isn't that degree certificate a floating parameter ?
Education is what is left after you have forgotten everything you have learnt in school or university.
@Brity - I agree with you, work experience and training should be the main consideration for any job openings, but it seems that here in gulf region, there is strong emphasis on degrees and certificates. I know someone who has a degree from imperial college, but he couldn't cope well in the corporate world and now working as a office assistant. I felt bad for him and always tell him that he can do better, but he is content with his job and he doesn't care whether he graduated from top school or not.
zackm: I agree that fakers should be prosecuted.. However, I also worry about this insistence on having a degree.. What about work experience and training ?
People should be true to themselves, not try to cheat their way to a job with fakes. Why bother, these days it is easy to spot fakes and many companies now, run background checks for verification.
Joys for the attestation department - no joys for the Asian