A clerk at the University of Granada and his wife have been found guilty of falsifying her examination marks. Consequently the clerk has received a 2-year, 4-month prison sentence and a fine of 1,800 euros (ouch!), whilst his ‘favoured’ wife received a 1-year, 9-month suspended prison sentence and was ordered to pay a fine of 1,620 euros. (Ouch, again).

According to the court findings, the couple handed in a equivalencia parical de estudios; i.e., an equivalent university degree from another country to obtain a Spanish one. (In other words, similar to the process of changing your national driving licence for a Spanish one.) The presented document was only a photocopy and was 100% ‘Mickey Mouse.’

Next, the husband used his access passwords to change her file, giving her top marks in exams and changing her university fees record to read that she was always paid up to date.

Nice while it lasted, of course…

(News: Metropolitan Granada, Granada, Andalucia)