Today (Monday February 1st), 3 university professors and 15 students have been convicted of corruption. They have been sentenced to prison for a scandal in which students bribed their professors to pass their exams. An accomplice who distributed as much as €2,000 ($2,800) in cash bribes from students to their professors in Zagreb, was also convicted.
The Croatian government is using this case as an example of their effort to fight corruption- an important element to join the European Union.
One of the convicted professors happened to be a professor in the economics faculty at Zagreb University, she was previously in charge of the government's Office for the Prevention of Conflicts of Interest. She was sentenced to one year and two months in prison.
By: Liz Hasseld
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