Six people have been detained and nine more were placed under court supervision in a case involving the fraudulent issuing of graduate diplomas.
"Six people have been detained so far and are to be presented to the court with a proposal for preventive detention, while nine more have been ordered under court supervision. The investigation revealed that in some higher education institutions crime rings were allegedly established that would include teachers, secretaries and other non-teaching staff, as well as graduates who would have intermediated money from students to teachers or IT staff, against commissions, in order to fraudulently pass graduation exams," the Romanian General Police Inspectorate (IGPR) said Thursday in a press statement.
According to IGPR, 350,000 euros, documents and computer systems were seized in hundreds of searches conducted on Wednesday.
At the same time, the IT staff of the institutions would have illegally accessed the software developed for school records and would have modified the results obtained by some of the students or would have sent them messages with correct answers during the exams.
Participating in the action were police officers from the Directorate for Combating Organised Crime, the Criminal Investigation Directorate and the Transport Police Directorate of the Romanian General Police Inspectorate and police officers from the Caras-Severin, Hunedoara and Timis County Police Inspectorates, as well as gendarmes.