It appears that resume fraud extends to the Middle East. President Ahmadinejad suffered a politically damaging setback when his interior minister, Ali Kordan was impeached for dishonesty when he confessed to holding a fake law degree from Oxford University.
According to the Washington Post:
A move to impeach an Iranian minister, slated for Tuesday, has flared into a full-blown political scandal after an attempt to bribe lawmakers over the matter led to a fistfight between supporters of President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, who, in turn, says parliament is out to sabotage his cabinet ahead of elections in June.
Speaking on state television Monday, the president called the impeachment bid “not legal” and “unfair.” Ahmadinejad is firmly backing Interior Minister Ali Kordan, who has been accused of dishonesty for falsely claiming to hold an honorary law degree from Oxford University. Kordan says Oxford’s representative in Tehran lied to him.
An impeachment of Kordan would push Ahmadinejad close to having to submit his entire cabinet for review by parliament, which is led by one of his chief political opponents. Iran’s constitution requires that step if more than half the cabinet ministers are replaced, and Ahmadinejad has replaced nine of 21.
As a foot note, employeescreen University recently published a white paper about diploma mills. Check it out!
And the hits just keep on comin’!