Dragan Bojović, State Secretary in the Ministry of Education, Science and Innovation, said that since the beginning of the year, 22 criminal charges have been filed due to suspicion of falsification of educational documents.
He said in "Boja jutra" on TV Vijesti that 18 people are suspected of falsifying high school diplomas, and two each of university and elementary school diplomas.
Of the 18 people suspected of falsifying high school diplomas, Bojović said that he thinks that they are usually "people who come to open businesses" and that they are foreign educational documents.
"Two suspicions are connected, I think with the Vocational Secondary School in Nikšić, one of them is the suspicion of falsifying the educational documents of a nurse from Mecidina", he added.
Bojović said that it is ungrateful to talk about the total number of fake diplomas.
"They are probably in those areas where there are the most employees, which are most in demand... It would not be correct for me to bid on those numbers and accuse this or that area. We have to implement very strict control mechanisms, which will show that the state will fight this phenomenon very decisively," said Bojović.
He emphasized that dubious diplomas are not only from abroad and from private colleges, but that counterfeits also appear from state colleges. "We have forgeries from Turkey, we even received forgeries from the United Kingdom and the United States and they were exposed, which has nothing to do with those universities, but with the person who submitted the forged document to the Ministry of Education," said Bojović.
He says that work will also be done on changes to the law that will enable more efficient checks.
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