As a result of investigations conducted by the Office of the Attorney General regarding inconsistencies in the validation of degrees in plastic surgery and medicine, a person was arrested and a preventive detention order was issued against another one.
Deputy Attorney General, María Paulina Riveros, stressed that “convincing measures have been taken to attack this phenomenon and, in particular, in those important cases related to the education sector.
“After designing a specific investigative plan, Leonor Herreño Aguilar, a public servant from the Ministry of Education, was arrested today since she allegedly validated degrees from foreign universities for people who did not meet the requirements to earn them.
“The Office of the Attorney General managed to suspend fake medical degrees obtained by Cristian Felipe Borrero Guerrero, Carlos Eduardo Calderón Carrascal and Liliana Lourdes Mamian Cerón so they cannot continue working with those licenses. They benefited from alleged irregular validations ” said Riveros.