Diplomas were purchased for $40,000. In a Polish university, teachers from Odessa were detained.

Employees of the Central Anti-Corruption Bureau of Poland detained three Ukrainian citizens on the territory of the former Collegium Humanum university while trying to give a bribe of $40,000 for the issuance of diplomas for 60 people. This was reported by Rzeczpospolita.

Three staff members of an Odessa university came to Warsaw and tried to obtain 60 diplomas and certificates of graduation from the rector of Collegium Humanum for «foreign students» who had never studied at the Polish university.

For this service, the women offered $40,000 in cash. However, the deal did not take place, and the Ukrainians were detained by employees of the Central Anti-Corruption Bureau.

The women have already been charged in connection with the crimes committed. In relation to each of the suspects, the prosecutor has applied preventive measures in the form of a property bail of 150 thousand zlotys, a ban on leaving the country, and the confiscation of passports until the property bail is paid.

Collegium Humanum is a scandalous university in Warsaw, known for its corruption schemes and diploma manipulations. The university administration massively issued prestigious MBA diplomas for an appropriate fee.

Among those who received fake diplomas were officers of the Polish army and civil servants.

During the investigation, the university's rector, Pawel Charnecki, was arrested, and his relative, former Member of the European Parliament Ryszard Charnecki, was also detained. Initially, the rector did not plead guilty, but later agreed to cooperate with the investigation and reported that he was not the only one involved in the sale of diplomas at the university.

The scandal around Collegium Humanum sparked extensive discussions on the quality of education and the functioning of private universities in Poland. Collegium Humanum had to change its name to continue enrolling students.

Recall that in Kharkiv, law enforcement officers uncovered a multi-million embezzlement scheme of budgetary funds in one of the leading universities.

According to the investigation, in 2012, the vice-rector for scientific and pedagogical work of one of Kharkiv's universities, together with the director of the company that carried out contract repair work at this university, decided to organize a scheme for seizing the university's budget funds.