Since February, CBA officials have been working on fraud related to Collegium Hunum University (now Varsovia University of Commerce and Applied Sciences).
Then a Newsweek reporter learned that the private university was offering a short course leading to an MBA diploma. Such a diploma facilitated, among other things: Path to audit committee of treasury enterprises.
The authenticity of documents published by Collegium Humanum was to be ensured by, inter alia: However, it turned out that those universities were not authorized to offer MBA studies. Collegium Hunum alumni include: Politicians, presidents, executives of state corporations, intelligence officers, military commanders, etc.
Collegium Hunum Incident. The list of detainees is long.
Since February, the CBA has detained more people across the country. One of the first people detained in the case was Collegium Hunum rector Paweł C, who is accused of committing 57 crimes. These include: issuing and forging graduate and master's degree certificates in exchange for bribes; Misappropriation of property of significant value. Mob behavior and crimes against sexual freedom.
Among those detained is Artur G., secretary general of the Polish Accreditation Board. In June, CBA officials in West Pomeranian Voivodeship, Silesia Voivodeship, and Greater Poland Voivodeship detained three men connected to the academic environment at a private university.
Those detained were Andrzej K., former president of the Polish Academy in Częstochowa, Waldemar U., rector of the TWP Humanities University in Szczecin, and Marek W., rector of the Konin University of Management and Human Resources.
Prosecutors charged them with bribery and paid active protection for repeatedly paying bribes to employees and members of the Polish Certification Board.
“The purpose of the criminal act was to unlawfully influence decisions regarding the universities managed by the detained rector. thread,” the station reported at the time.
Scandal surrounding Collegium Hunum. Lawmakers were among those arrested on numerous charges.
Also in June 2024, the CBA detained the vice-rector and rector of the University of Lodz, as well as lecturers and researchers at the universities of Katowice and Krakow. “The important thing is the same: to give financial benefits as a favor when charting a new course,” said Jacek Dobrzynski, a spokesman for the Interior and Public Administration Minister.
In September 2024, investigators detained former member of the European Parliament Richard Czarnecki and his wife Emilia H. At the time, Spokesman for the Coordination of the Minister of Special Services, Jacek Dobrzynski, informed him that it was “buying an MBA diploma as a bribe to sit.” In the Audit Committee. ”
Then, in November 2024, officials detained three women from an Odessa university who were attempting to obtain more than 60 fake Collegium Hunum graduation certificates in exchange for bribes.
In June, Collegium Hunum University changed its name to “Varsovya University of Management and Applied Sciences''. According to information provided by Minister of Science Dariusz Wieczorek at a meeting in November, the school conducted recruitment for the 2024/2025 academic year and accepted 1,999 students for part-time study.
However, the Ministry of Science and Higher Education has not received information on the number of students allowed to study full-time at this university.
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