The Professional Background Screening Association (PBSA) held its annual conference on September 14-15, 2021. Integrity Asia had the opportunity to attend this event virtually. At this annual conference, one of the interesting topics brought up was Criminal Record Checks in Europe: Navigating the Murky Waters of Article 10 by Mark...
Graduation season is an important moment for students. They rejoice by taking pictures and sharing them on social media to celebrate. However, behind this joy, fraudsters are lurking and targeting their pictures. Jisc, a UK-based non-profit educational digitalization company, warns university graduates to refrain from posting selfies with their diplomas on...
An owner and operator of nursing schools in Virginia and Florida was charged with plotting to sell fake transcripts and diplomas. The targets for selling their fake diplomas were nursing candidates who did not qualify for the board of nursing exams, licensed nurses, and nursing candidates enrolled in a Florida...
With thousands of people dying of overdoses every year, it is apparent that one of the world’s biggest persistent problems is drug use. In Indonesia’s mainstream media, we can see that artists, politicians, and even those who are in authority are caught using, buying, or in possession of illegal drugs. With...
Integrity Asia had the honor to be one of the guest speakers at Swiss Chamber Indonesia's (SwissCham) Human Capital Development (HCD) Sectoral Group's monthly meeting on Wednesday, April 21, 2021. In the virtual meeting attended by HR leaders from several of its member companies, SwissCham was represented by Vice Chairman of...
Quack doctors are medical impostors who pretend to professionally or publicly possess the skill, knowledge or qualifications of being a medical practitioner. This dangerous illegal practice of quack doctors can happen everywhere. One example is a woman in France posing as a doctor and claiming to be able to test Covid...
The Court check can be tedious and come with high risk of human error. In Indonesia, one district court has one Case Information System or called SIPP that records data of both civil and criminal cases. Currently, there are over 250 SIPP in nation wide. Despite the digitization and public access,...
There are many forms of fraud in education, ranging from contract cheating, bribery, plagiarism, and falsifying acedemic credentials. Fake academic degrees are only a small part of the rampant spread of false academic credentials in Indonesia. The last case that was raised by the media was a forged post-graduate diploma...
The book written by Icelandic TV presenter, historian, translator, and writer Magnus Magnusson contains 16 case studies of fraud that gained the world’s attention in the 20th century. The sixteen case studies are divided into four chapters, which are Art Forgeries, Archeological Frauds, Secret Lives Impostors and Hoaxers, and Literally...
Earlier this year in February, the academic background of Marzuki Yahya, the Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs was called into question by Malaysians. A police report was also lodged by Muhsin Abdul Latheef, a political activist who disputed the legitimacy of the deputy minister's degree. Initially, the deputy minister informed the...
