A mainland Chinese student has been jailed for three months for falsifying his academic record to secure a place at the Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK) two years ago.
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Sha Tin Court on Tuesday recorded a guilty plea from Bao Junyang on a count of obtaining services by deception after prosecutors agreed to withdraw a second charge of making a false statement for the purpose of obtaining an entry permit from the Immigration Department.
The court heard Bao, a 30-year-old former aircraft technician, got into CUHK’s business school using a forged transcript purportedly issued by New York University in the 2023/24 academic year.
He became the subject of an internal investigation by CUHK in April 2024 as his academic performance fell short of what was required of a student in the Master of Business Administration programme.
Police took over the case four months later after the varsity confirmed Bao, who claimed to have obtained a bachelor’s degree in Science after studying at the American institution between 2012 and 2016, was never a student there.
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The investigation revealed Bao passed an online interview and received a conditional offer from CUHK in early 2023 by hiring an impersonator through a foreign university agent in mainland China.