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The President of Belgrade University’s Council said on Tuesday he did not know of a commission tasked with an investigation into a doctorate of Sinisa Mali, the city's mayor and the country’s finance minister to be, suspected to be a forgery.
Branko Kovacevic said that current regulations stipulated that the University could not form such commission, but that the faculty the doctorate had been submitted to should do it.
Commenting on Prime Minister Ana Brnabic’s statement that the University would name the third commission to scrutinise the doctorate, Kovacevic told daily Danas, that the Faculty of Organizational Sciences (FON) had formed an administrative, but not an expert commission.
Following the Council’s request to form the expert body, the Faculty could not do it since there were difficulties in having people on board for the commission.
“I don’t know why Mali presents himself as a PhD when he never received the diploma. He has not been promoted at the University and won’t be until the case is resolved. One cannot become a PhD before the promotion, and one can only be a PhD candidate,” he said.
Several hundred members of Serbia’s academic community demanded Mali's doctorate was annulled, alleging he plagiarised it.
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