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The Europe Business Assembly (EBA) is an Oxford-based organisation

Background

EBA was founded in 2000, by Ukrainian businessman Anton Savvov, and he runs it out of Oxford and Ukraine, along with his son Ivan Savvov. The directors are Ivan Savvov and "Professor" John Netting, formerly a lecturer at Oxford Brookes University.

Criticism

The Organized Crime and Corruption Reporting Project reported of the EBA and similar organizations that "anyone who replies, shows interest and agrees to pay gets an award".

In 2015, an Indonesian magazine criticized EBA for selling "meaningless accolades to egotistical officials, especially those from countries notorious for corruption". The report noted at least two Indonesian officials had purchased the "nonsense awards". In 2017, two Malaysian councils were criticized for buying awards from EBA in 2013 and 2014. Malaysian local legislator Muhammad Farid Saad equated the acquisition of the honors to "buying fake academic degrees”. Also in 2017, Chinese media reported that China's state-run Longyuan Power Group had "allegedly paid for the made-up award of Best Enterprise" in 2011 from EBA. The South China Morning Post said the scam traded on the University of Oxford’s name to sell fake awards to companies.

In July 2017, The Times reported that the "University of Oxford's academic reputation is being exploited by Ukrainian businessmen selling millions of pounds worth of fake awards and honours".

See also

References

  1. ^ Cite error: The named reference thetimes1 was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  2. Curtis, Joseph (24 July 2017). "Ukrainian businessmen make millions selling 'fake' honours". Dailymail.co.uk. Retrieved 26 July 2017.
  3. "EUROPE BUSINESS ASSEMBLY LIMITED - Overview (free company information from Companies House)". Beta.companieshouse.gov.uk. Retrieved 26 July 2017.
  4. John W.A. Netting. The Academic Union. Retrieved 1 August 2017.
  5. "What Price Honor?". www.occrp.org. 10 October 2014. Retrieved 29 July 2017.
  6. Yeung, Kenneth (13 July 2015). "What Price Glory?". Indonesia Expat. Retrieved 28 July 2017.
  7. Sin Chow, Tan (27 July 2017). "Penang local councils 'fell for vanity awards scam'". Star Media Group Berhad. Retrieved 28 July 2017.
  8. Hu, Tracy (26 July 2017). "Chinese wind energy firm in Oxford fake awards scam, report says". South China Morning Post. Retrieved 28 July 2017.

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