The administrators of the private college “Wisdom” in Tirana and 7 other people have been arrested by the Italian police. They have sold fake diplomas and certificates in Italy, after earlier they tried to bribe high education leaders in Albania.

The sale of fictitious diplomas has produced a scandal involving private higher education in Albania. The Italian administrators of the Wisdom university college seem to be the head of a group of fraudsters who came to Tirana to set up an educational center with excellent students, but who deviated by distributing fake diplomas and certificates to Italian citizens.

The investigations of the Guardia di Finanzia have revealed that the couple Savino Cianci and Lucia Catalano have bribed the president of the Accreditation Council in Albania, citizen Sh.T with a bag worth 1150 euros, even trying to enter the Ministry of Education with expensive gifts.

But she herself says that he does not know the Italian couple, and for him the mention in the Wisdom file is all slander.

Documents from the Italian prosecutor’s office prove that the private university printed fake diplomas, in exchange for payments ranging from 6 thousand euros in the profile of the hotel industry, 9 thousand euros in law and 19 thousand euros in the sciences of education.

The investigations in Italy started from the reports of some citizens and so far 9 Italians have been arrested, while there is no information about the extent of the investigations and the operation of the Guardia di Finanza in Albania.