The Corruption Prevention and Combating Bureau (KNAB) has sent to the Jelgava city prosecution office materials of the criminal procedure suggesting to start prosecution against a professor of the Latvian University of Agriculture (LLU) and a private person.
LLU professor is suspected of repeatedly asking and accepting money for a positive mark given to a student without passing an exam. For his part, the private person is suspected of supporting the asking and accepting of money for marking without an exam, as well as of fraud and misappropriation of money.
The criminal procedure was initiated on 22 June, 2007. The information received within this procedure gives sufficient ground to believe that the LLU professor, by misusing his position repeatedly and by using an intermediary, has asked and received unlawful benefit in the amount of 270 lats for a positive mark in the exam, in this way violating the rights of the student to receive a qualified higher education. Within the criminal procedure it was found out that the professor accepted money for a fictive passing of exams from students of LLU and a student of the Jelgava’s branch of the Baltic International Academy.
Considering that in the course of the pre-trial investigation sufficient evidence was gathered, the investigator of KNAB suggests starting criminal prosecution against the LLU professor for unlawful asking and acceptance of benefits (Criminal Law, Section 3262, Paragraf two), against the private person for support in committing this offence (Criminal Law, Section 3262, Paragraf one, Section 20, Paragraf four), as well as fraud (Criminal Law, Section 177, Paragraf one) and misappropriation of money (Criminal Law, Section 179, Paragraf one). To both suspects a safety measure not related to deprivation of liberty is applied.