Buying Exam Results

Trial against 23 professors, students and administrators indicted for corruption charges began this Thursday.

Investigation transcripts reveal that Zagreb business school sold good grades.

Trial against 23 professors, students and administrators indicted for corruption charges at Zagreb University of Economics, began this Thursday at Zagreb County Court.

While the court released the images secretly recorded by USKOK, Jutarnji List also managed to get a hold of specific evidence regarding some of the cases.

Paper revealed a conversation between the accused Munib Lujinovic and a man named Mate.

Their conversation, from June 30^th 2008, indicates that ‘buying’ exams was a customary procedure that required either strong personal connections or a thick envelope full of cash.

Good grade costs more than two thousand kunas

It seems that Mate got in touch with mediator and asked for passing grade in professor Desa Mlikotin Tomic’s International Trade Law class, to which mediator replied that this was ‘doable’ and added that the same could not be arranged for Silvio Orsag’s class.

Orsag, it appears, was too expensive because passing his exam required more than two thousand kunas. During one of his conversations, Mate said that student wishing to pass was very poor, to which Lujinovic replied ‘oh, poor kid, well he should study then’.

Second conversation happened between Milan Cevid, mediator and student named Ferenc. This conversation implied that Cevid Ferenc managed to ‘fix’ a passing grade for professor Jadranka Grgon’s class.