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In April a court imposed a three-year jail sentence for claiming a fake degree; the sentence was later scrapped.

In April nine people stood trial in the capital charged with selling fake degree certificates from non-existent American colleges.

Kordan last month admitted holding a fake degree from Oxford although he said he had been duped.

Hedd has uncovered candidates who have supported their claims with fake degree certificates and official-looking letters of reference.

Mr. Kordan said he had been victimized by a man who introduced himself eight years ago as a representative of Oxford and had given him the fake degree in return for a thesis he had written previously.

Breivik, after all, was a man whose professional life had already taken some unusual twists, including an unsuccessful trip to Liberia to buy blood diamonds and a business selling fake degree certificates.

What about the fake degrees?

University watchdog the Higher Education Degree Datacheck (Hedd), which monitors fake degrees, identified a total of 62 bogus institutions in the past year.

The genesis of concerns about fake degrees dates from 2008, when doubts surfaced about the authenticity of Mr. Zardari's bachelor's degree during his successful run for president.

Six people have been arrested since June and accused of submitting fake degrees in applications for jobs with the New York Fire Department, the authorities said yesterday.

A report released in January found that 14 members of the Fire Department had submitted fake degrees to be promoted or hired.