{"id":531586,"date":"2026-04-06T18:51:49","date_gmt":"2026-04-06T15:51:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/reform.news\/?p=531586"},"modified":"2026-04-06T19:29:34","modified_gmt":"2026-04-06T16:29:34","slug":"foreigner-worked-in-belarus-for-several-years-using-fake-pharmacist-diploma","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/foreigner-worked-in-belarus-for-several-years-using-fake-pharmacist-diploma","title":{"rendered":"Foreigner Worked in Belarus for Several Years Using Fake Pharmacist Diploma"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"fb-root\"><\/div>\n<p>A foreign national worked in Lida for several years using a fake pharmacist diploma, but the deception was uncovered when he applied for a new job.<\/p>\n<p>In 2015, the 39-year-old man decided to apply for a position as a pharmacist at a private pharmaceutical company in Moscow. An acquaintance offered to arrange a fake diploma from a prestigious university for him. The man agreed and received a forged university diploma stating a specialisation in pharmacy. Using the document, he worked for three employers over the next nine years, the Investigative Committee <a href=\"https:\/\/sk.gov.by\/ru\/news-usk-grodno-ru\/view\/ocherednoe-trudoustrojstvo-po-poddelnomu-dokumentu-dlja-39-letnego-zhitelja-grodno-obernulos-ugolovnym-delom-15894\/\">said<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>In 2019, the man moved to Belarus, obtained a residence permit and worked for an organisation in Lida. In April last year, he began looking for work in Hrodna and presented the fake diploma to a prospective employer. The employer found the document suspicious and initiated a check.<\/p>\n<p>The Investigative Committee opened a criminal case under Part 1 of Article 380 for the use of a knowingly forged document granting rights. The man admitted guilt. The investigation is continuing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A foreign national worked in Lida for several years using a fake pharmacist diploma, but the deception was uncovered when he applied for a new job. In 2015, the 39-year-old man decided to apply for a position as a pharmacist at a private pharmaceutical company in Moscow. An acquaintance offered to arrange a fake diploma [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":119,"featured_media":531585,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sharing_image":{"poster":"https:\/\/reform.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/69d3df721d939.jpg","width":1200,"height":630,"template":"691142dd","mode":"auto"},"_sharing_image_fieldset":{"dTVKfmI95PYT":"Foreigner Worked in Belarus for Several Years Using Fake Pharmacist Diploma"},"footnotes":""},"categories":[142338,143094],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-531586","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-incident"],"wps_subtitle":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/531586","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/119"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=531586"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/531586\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/531585"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=531586"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=531586"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=531586"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}