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getting a university degree with ask any study or exams sound too good to be true can be a part of a new term university destroyed this guy and actually like it or not hundreds of thousands of people of fallen for pledges like this from fighting and online universities do you think these people are ready by these people if at all and i want to want to investigates the pakistani company allegedly pulling the strings behind the scam and the lengths they will go to to keep the money flowing success case the best never end. up. getting a degree isn't a z. . for most students it entails years of study and hard work. increasingly millions of students trying to gain vasile qualifications by studying

online. but not all online degrees are what they seem. sanitations to every one of us meet the head of the department of law a new food university which says it's based in the united states we host one of the most renowned faculty in the world new food promises no more marathon study sessions no more cramming for those dreaded exams at all at a bargain price our education standards and protocols are constantly be. that minor students the very best possible. new foods website claims to have a presence in more than 180 countries. and it's not the only online university selling its global rate.

must claims to be the world's largest university which was news to benjamin placards an investigative journalist who specializes in stories about higher education. and. big whether it was took time and it was. something that can step by step by step and then the floodgates open must university was the 1st institution that we came across. benjamin quickly discovered a lot of different university websites with some very curious similarities there all the websites for the universities have the same template. they have a banner at the top that says the name of the university the colors are different. there is a little picture of a woman with a head ready to take a. 'd little

box here that tells you about the kinds of course is that you can do at university . and the other thing that is very similar is that when you log on to these various websites they will do a pop up and say we're having a special offer on scholarships callers now but that happens on every single website. the websites also often feature indorsements from start like lecture ethan turner at california port university teaching a california university is a great achievement in my academic career but we were unable to find any lecturer called ethan turner or indeed any university called california poor when we searched for the address given on the website we ended up at what appears to be a mexican butcher shop i would say it's only obvious when you start to scratch i was shocked at how obvious it was after just a very small amount of scratching below the surface dramatic university claim

studying he will bring you a step closer towards professional excellence and features a glowing testimonial from one of its student turnout was an awesome experience for me as it would earn my keep and leadership and education administration but when we checked out dramani address instead of the impressive university campus we found a teacher. schock. the common denominator between these websites is a company called x. act the exact world's leading i.t. germany sounded as though the 1st time i heard about exact words from a source of mine. abu dhabi he basically said me. an email saying i've been offered a scholarship from this university and it just sounds fishy to me i check them out and. the more you found out about them the more you realize that.

x x on it is say it's pakistan's biggest and most successful i take company. to its critics it's the world's biggest agreement selling bogus degrees to hundreds of thousands of customers. exact now has a global presence in 6 continents 120 countries and 1300 cities. except located in the hospital pakistan's biggest city caracas he claims that he left them 10 years it's grown into a 1000000000 dollar company employs more than 25000 workers. foxconn or school but just $1000000000.00 but which i. accept is the creation of one man show web show.

in 1997 mr shoaib ahmed shaykh embarked on a journey to create a company that would become a household name in every industry to me a mix of some meat that he not me but not i'm not. big it says not on me. as shakes company exact group so too did his reputation as a business mogul in pakistan. but in may 25th pakistanis woke up to some shocking news. i think it illustrates a claim by enough of a young guy feeling money learning time and try not to cry give him a fight and that is only shake you've been arrested and charged with being at the center of an astonishing complex web of fraudulent activity or allegations that these were all fake big reasons and then just by being a certain amount of money you can buy a degree of malcolm i live a double exit not. points i need to get out i'm going to flat on my exit see

absolutely got i'm going to. shake insists that he's company simply makes software which businesses of all types including online universities can use to find customers his loyal shall cut high out says shake cannot be held responsible for what happens between customers and online universities that use x.x. software the exit function on loop around the calls and good enders had misses too bad with misty providing and information on behalf of the university to speak goodness to fuck and fish. and shakes lawyer stresses that his client has not been convicted of any crimes if that i know has been committed. then it has to be proved that it has to be mccain that is has to be sure indeed. this is unfair unjust. but when the pakistani authorities raided access's offices in may 25th jane they

found a mountain of compelling evidence. there were hundreds of thousands of blank degree significance lists of hundreds of fake universities thank you count showing payments amounting to millions of dollars and tens of thousands of names and contact details the customers around the world. there are also recordings of hundreds of hours of phone calls where representatives of the fake universities demand payments from often terrified customers need to pay an amount of and $1000.00 but just a small amount you're actually putting at risk everything else but got to be a different year for your crew appeared among the recordings was stored on hard drives at x.x. centers local media reported the police also found proof. of evidence being destroyed with documents being burnt files dumped into the sink and computer hard

drive smashed my son in law me what i think about when you complain to me. despite the arrests and seizure of evidence many of the online universities linked to exact a still up and running and the pakistani authorities have not taken steps to shut them down so what actually goes on in these degrade operations. had right. hello is this the l r a university and no. no university. to find out research is in london in singapore made a series of coals to some of the universities linked to extracts network. obvious told about online universities. get angry you

introduce flexible. the cool is presented themselves as lacking any of the kind of academic qualifications normally required by legitimate universities but very cane to biodegrade the response. and positive. impression is yeah in the online world it doesn't take long to find office the thing too good to refuse. does not mean experience base program. for these online universities a lack of basic academic. simply doesn't matter potential custom is

a told life experience is enough ok but i wouldn't actually have to take any exams with a university. a whole range of degree and diploma courses offered or at a bargain price. without having to do any actual studying or take a single exam the lucky student is suing the proud recipient of an impressive looking stupid showing that he or she has been granted a degree from a world renowned university. that in ny 25th date the new york times published its own investigation which for the 1st time identified x.x. as the world's biggest agreement. at 1st the exposé threaten to bring the roof

down on the company. one of my own money or clear go. with the story of accept and the fake degrees was far from over. karate is a new tory sleeve violent season with frequent clashes between criminal gangs. against this backdrop the exact controversy has stood concerns for the safety of some of those linked to the case. 'd after 15 months on remand shoaib ahmed shaykh was released from prison on trial and the investigation same to grind to a halt. shaikh refused repeated requests for

a need to be but we were able to speak to his lawyer. he has been deprived up north on leave from his liberty remain in jail for many months as well as lost on his business and after the knees. trying to establish his business again and because he can pretend to. accept claims its financial success makes plain why the company has been targeted for investigation. but the prosecutors who worked on the case have little doubt about what had been going on. their bodies a little more. little bit. these were our journey to get it got obama jobs and young. lawyer seller who didn't come to port it was part of the prosecution team building the case against shake and extract was call 42471468.

or so he but i get short cut a lot will cry the use of the i think you should not to say yeah game on your dignity on the wall. well university module to me. as well is the wealth of documentary evidence of fight to graze being produced on an industrial scale by extract the prosecution. child statements from key witness since. the court will be caught i get a look at our peril of these get on we get to be mrs theme but doing a double confessional ban on all of these on the idea of. the media got a lot of that they don't need to get even out there. at one stage the prosecution had 79 witnesses. being karate legal proceedings do not

always go smoothly prosecution witnesses began to change their minds about testifying against exact. yobbos i doubt. his will and that the it wasn't that would that i'll get my bus company. the production company before the guy on the 9 witnesses are demanding and on the bigness not a single victim come fall out of blood against the exit again they had to get it you lose out on that accuse me of i did your duty but i shan't i. all i want is that they use every guy you have to but you will but a lot of it will do is i think i've got them on the hot but in the middle of. the local media have reported threats of violence and intimidation towards prosecution witnesses from police investigating exact to even the prosecution

lawyers themselves. jam the poor and 3 of the lawyers withdrew from the prosecution. there is no evidence that shake or anyone connected with exact was involved with any threats over while it's after 15 months of legal arguments and allies shake and the others say new manages were released on what the prosecution considered a technicality staged to do make up provision. to have another procedure at the multi-day. miceli. excelled that could lead to a god he says i. don't all been beardy how you mean. to he's defended his shake was freed because the case against him fell apart here for it is against of no evidence so far. the weakness is those who have been

because. they had a straight marriage and only 9 part of militancy is out and ending. the prosecution has fairly to establish its case in the very beginning. as the prosecution case began to crumble the embarrassed. one of the prosecution lawyers who had withdrawn earlier to resume the case. here is jamil talking about the exact case on pakistani television in august 27th. i'm going to talk. about the new party you've got a man who is about 9 this is going to he's on mine. give me a few quotes from the federal record on the net by all of many. prosecutors didn't have an owner in a basically home some combined opinion he has to have evidence be the hotshot

s. open and shut case evidence came to me about a month of december that he has been and he's also. when he renewed his work on the accept case jamil received anonymous threats of violence then in september 26th his home was attacked with a hand grenade operator de monte. not. going at that sort of god. and in the heat of. the i don't want to get into details about their motive up as. no one was injured in the attack and no evidence has been presented then or since to link it in any way to exact. since the grenade attack jamil announced he would play no further pot in the prosecution he declined to comment further. but in a previous interview he described the high stakes involved in the exact prosecution

. i thought would. be a dozen $1000000.00 per month. in fact the u.s. department of justice says that x.x. has collected at least 140. in u.s. dollars from customers worldwide tens of thousands of americans are thought to have bought degrees from universities linked to the company but no american has been willing to travel to pakistan to pursue you a grievance there. a former senior figure of pakistan's federal investigation agency ahmad jeffrey has been following the case. for the door to have trust in the system in pakistan the school district in august has the money as a club. in order to go or have some you know then the system does nurse new honest people coming to the cordon and give rigorous. work but read that poem

and they will back. people are going to come into this. without witnesses willing to appear in course and with prosecution lawyers too frightened to continue the case against exact collapsed. shake was granted bail by a judge proviso cutty of a moron who has since admitted to a high of course the took a bribe according $5000.00 to relay shock. the judge will grant have been recently agreed that he too money in the financial cases this happens. the people don't operate a national issue you have created a number of other character the number but then the money and there are free money too good to be measured up dollars method of money and this happened and everything . in this car because the mafia the great together.

it's a matter of public record that universities link to access that have sold hundreds of thousands of degrees to online students around the world. and some of these degree holders have taken up positions where genuine qualifications are crucial. these lists was seized by the pakistani authorities when they raided x.x. premises there are thousands of names of individuals who have been able to take up professional positions sometimes with safety is an issue even though these qualifications a bogus. in southeast asia alone we found thousands of fake degree holders in malaysia. singapore. and thailand some are working as doctors nurses teaches and engineers. thousands of people employed in safety

critical jobs while holding bogus qualifications it alarms dr rahman formerly of pakistan's higher education commission it could be a huge disaster because medical degrees in your medical doctors who are practicing medicine without knowing medicine counters they are proud of them they're in the field of accountancy without knowing anything about accounts and this applies across the feeling various fields in 2016 a member of the newly elected government of myanmar had to issue a humiliating apology after one of these impressive standing qualifications turned out to have been purchased from x.x. degree mills. it was revealed the politician you cure wins master's and doctorate degrees in finance came from the nonexistent brooklyn park university despite this revelation you cure we continue to serve as minister for planning and finance for

me and. there's no way of knowing how many of x.x. hundreds of thousands of customers around the world witnessed it. and how many would knowingly buying a fake degree to get a job they were not qualified to hold. for years after the allegations against 1st made headlines fake universities still out there looking for their next easy. win for just a couple of $1000.00 i could get american d. green and become a full fledged chemist it sounds a little bit too good to be true. but i don't really trust that because from what i've read your part of hundreds and hundreds and hundreds of cities that are completely fake or non-life there only a company called x. are where are you right now. where you based.

well i find that quite confusing because for most of what i read your actually an office in pakistan working fax act and crap that not true. how do you know others 1000000 of us stevie nicks in university the university or your websites that say. it's not illegal business out. of on one occasion there was this one guy where i confronted him and said look. you guys are clearly criminals operating out of fellow somewhere in the world it away you up it. you're terrible human figure of really scamming people money and and telling them they just laughed and it was this really sort of barreling down the phone and that was when i really was like wow these guys are out not nice people you know. these people that are enjoying the hype that they're taking thousands of

dollars thousands of pounds away from people. in 20 a chain the chief justice of park of sun said that the scandal has tarnished pakistan's name making our heads down with shame. and makes me very sad that pakistan would be important for trade in a negative light and it makes me sad that it has not been properly legally investigated and the decision taken we should let the court the justice take take its course but it needs to be done quickly not in a matter of years and that's where the failure of the justice system is.

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