Axact degrees bought by Ministers, doctors, politicians in Canada
Canada has been engulfed with the Axact fake degree scandal. An investigation conducted by the Federal Bureau of Investigation and an international publication has revealed over 800 Canadian citizens had purchased fake degrees from the software company.
These revelations had been made in an article which had been published by Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, the article states that over 800 Canadian citizens had purchased fake degrees from Axact.
Former FBI agenct, Allen Ezell, who had been probing the Axact “diploma mill” case, has said that this is just one operation and it does not specify the number of fake degrees sold in Canada on the whole.
“All of us can be harmed by any professional that … does not have the full extent of training that his credentials purport that he has,” Ezell said.
The case of Gilbert Correces is very important who after acquiring one such Almeda University degree from Axact became a psychotherapist while earlier he was a contractor.
However the PhD and Correces’s alma mater are both fake. Almeda University is affiliated with Axact’s international diploma mill scheme, and is not an accredited post-secondary institution.
A former quality assurance employee of Axact Yasir Jamshaid says that 95 per cent of the education customers “were crooks themselves.”
“They knew they’re buying something that is not real but they’re still going for it. They’re not innocent.”
Jamshaid said that when he blew the whistle on the software company in early 2015, Axact had by then recovered approximately $600,000 for about 20 customers who he believes were actually deceived.
In connection with the scandal, a US court on August 29 sentenced an Axact executive, Umair Hamid, to 21 months in prison and levied a fine of $5,303,020 “for his role in an international diploma mill scheme operated through the Pakistani company”.
“Hamid, 31, of Karachi, Pakistan, pled guilty to one count of conspiracy to commit wire fraud, which carries a maximum sentence of 20 years in prison”, according to a press statement by US Department of Justice in April, this year.
He was arrested on Dec 19, 2016, according to a statement by former Manhattan US Attorney Preet Bharara. He was produced in a federal court in Fort Mitchell, Kentucky, the following day.
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