Mahabub Alam :
Despite the law enforcement agencies’ drives against fake certificates, a strong syndicate is involved in rampant selling of such documents across the country, particularly in the capital.
Sources said frauds are producing fake certificates of SSC, HSC, Honors and Masters using the latest technology and selling those to dishonest students with poor academic records applying for higher studies at home and abroad or for jobs. Even fake MBBS certificates are also available.
This practice, the sources said, inspires the disqualified students while it creates discontent among the meritorious.
One can easily manage fake certificates ranging from secondary to university levels from a computer compose shop, printing press or from some dishonest officials of education boards and private universities.
Two employees of Dhaka Education Board, five employees of Computer Compose shops and printing presses in the city’s Nilkhet area and also one fake certificate receiver confirmed this to The New Nation on condition of anonymity.
Producing of these certificates has become very easy with the availability of high
quality scanners, printers and papers, and computers with high-end software like Adobe Photoshop, Corel Draw and more, they said.
Rapid Action Battalion-4 (RAB) on Friday arrested a fake certificate producer named Sazzad Hossain from Jurian in the city and recovered many SSC and HSC certificates from his possession. RAB also recovered certificate making equipment.
The detainee was handed over to Kodamtali Police Station, said RAB Legal and Media Wing Director Mahmud Khan.
One of the receivers said about Tk 2,000-5,000 is to pay to get an SSC or HSC certificate from a computer compose shop at Bakusha Market of Nilkhet.
“I have collected an HSC certificate from the shop for Tk 2,000 but one of my relatives collected it paying Tk 5,000,” he said not to be named.
Besides SSC, HSC and Degree certificates, the shop also sells birth registration certificates (from Union Parishad and Ward Councilor), and ID cards of mass media and law enforcers, he said.
As reported, the recent seizure of a huge number of fake certificates in the city by the RAB and police and the rampant practice of forgery has troubled the parents.
Dr Iftekaruzzan, Executive Director Of the Transparency International Bangladesh (TIB), told The New Nation that the fake certificates could be used for getting jobs in private and public sectors due to lack of their monitoring.
“If a certificate is checked well before appointing anyone in job, the problem must solve,” he said, adding: This practice is detrimental to the way of building a bright nation.
Despite the law enforcement agencies’ drives against fake certificates, a strong syndicate is involved in rampant selling of such documents across the country, particularly in the capital.
Sources said frauds are producing fake certificates of SSC, HSC, Honors and Masters using the latest technology and selling those to dishonest students with poor academic records applying for higher studies at home and abroad or for jobs. Even fake MBBS certificates are also available.
This practice, the sources said, inspires the disqualified students while it creates discontent among the meritorious.
One can easily manage fake certificates ranging from secondary to university levels from a computer compose shop, printing press or from some dishonest officials of education boards and private universities.
Two employees of Dhaka Education Board, five employees of Computer Compose shops and printing presses in the city’s Nilkhet area and also one fake certificate receiver confirmed this to The New Nation on condition of anonymity.
Producing of these certificates has become very easy with the availability of high
quality scanners, printers and papers, and computers with high-end software like Adobe Photoshop, Corel Draw and more, they said.
Rapid Action Battalion-4 (RAB) on Friday arrested a fake certificate producer named Sazzad Hossain from Jurian in the city and recovered many SSC and HSC certificates from his possession. RAB also recovered certificate making equipment.
The detainee was handed over to Kodamtali Police Station, said RAB Legal and Media Wing Director Mahmud Khan.
One of the receivers said about Tk 2,000-5,000 is to pay to get an SSC or HSC certificate from a computer compose shop at Bakusha Market of Nilkhet.
“I have collected an HSC certificate from the shop for Tk 2,000 but one of my relatives collected it paying Tk 5,000,” he said not to be named.
Besides SSC, HSC and Degree certificates, the shop also sells birth registration certificates (from Union Parishad and Ward Councilor), and ID cards of mass media and law enforcers, he said.
As reported, the recent seizure of a huge number of fake certificates in the city by the RAB and police and the rampant practice of forgery has troubled the parents.
Dr Iftekaruzzan, Executive Director Of the Transparency International Bangladesh (TIB), told The New Nation that the fake certificates could be used for getting jobs in private and public sectors due to lack of their monitoring.
“If a certificate is checked well before appointing anyone in job, the problem must solve,” he said, adding: This practice is detrimental to the way of building a bright nation.
