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Uganda's Medical and Dental Practitioners Council registers interns provisionally on the strength of their academic documents, and in 2022 a 27-year-old used t…
📍 Hoima, Uganda
On 6 June 2025 Ghana Police arrested a man at Kasoa in the Central Region who was, at that moment, wearing a white coat and a stethoscope on his way to meet a …
📍 Accra, Ghana
The Philippines regulates doctors through the Professional Regulation Commission, whose licence register is public, and its National Bureau of Investigation ha…
📍 Manila, Philippines
Uzbekistan became one of the fastest-growing MBBS destinations for Indian students after 2022, and 2025 was the year the strain showed. According to Careers360…
📍 Tashkent, Uzbekistan
Nepal's Central Investigation Bureau spent 2023 and 2024 running a nationwide operation against people practising medicine on forged academic records, and the …
📍 Kathmandu, Nepal
Three cases from Buenos Aires in 2025 show the full toolkit of a false doctor, and how little the documents on the wall are worth without a check against the r…
📍 Buenos Aires, Argentina
Portugal's medical register is run by the Ordem dos Médicos, and its courts have been willing to send people to prison for practising outside it. According to …
📍 Porto, Portugal
In June 2025 a fitness-to-practise inquiry of the Irish Medical Council found that a doctor had tried to move from the general division of the register to the …
📍 Dublin, Ireland
Japan licenses doctors nationally and lists them in a ministry database, which makes the case of Miyabi Kuroki, arrested in Tokyo in 2012, a useful study in ho…
📍 Tokyo, Japan
In April 2022 Cambodia's Ministry of Education publicly condemned the use of forged high-school certificates to sit entrance examinations for medical courses, …
📍 Phnom Penh, Cambodia
Morocco's forged-diploma trade has moved online, and in 2025 and 2026 the police caught two of its retailers. According to Hespress, police in Laayoune arreste…
📍 Laayoune, Morocco
Collegium Humanum was a licensed private university in Warsaw with branches in several Polish cities and campuses abroad. In February 2024 Poland's anti-corrup…
📍 Warsaw, Poland
In September 2026 Colombia's Fiscalía charged two people in Bogotá with running a network of consulting rooms that performed cosmetic surgery on more than 200 …
📍 Bogotá, Colombia
Peru has one of the more centralised degree registers in Latin America. Every university title, Peruvian or foreign, has to be entered with SUNEDU, the nationa…
📍 Lima, Peru
Nigeria's regulators have published lists of illegal universities and unapproved clerkships, recorded elsewhere on this site. The Ikorodu case shows what a per…
📍 Lagos, Nigeria
Liberia has one of the lowest ratios of doctors to population in the world, which is the condition under which people without qualifications find it easiest to…
📍 Monrovia, Liberia
New Zealand's Medical Council registers every doctor and issues an annual practising certificate, the document a hospital asks for at hiring. In 2023 a court d…
📍 Auckland, New Zealand
Canada's nursing regulators run public registers and hospitals are required to verify staff against them. In 2024 a court sentenced a woman who had worked arou…
📍 Vancouver, Canada
A directory row says "agent X, overcharge". A story says how the WhatsApp group started, what the "university letter" looked like, when the fee changed, and what finally gave it away. That's what makes the next family pause before they transfer money.
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