Plagiarism in a work of the International Criminal Court

Prime Minister of Romania Victor Ponta is suspected of plagiarism as reported by Reuters referring to the journal of Nature.

In an article posted on the site of Nature, says that, according to the journal more than half of a doctoral dissertation of Victor Ponta that he defended in 2003 at the University of Bucharest is a borrowed text without the proper guidance of primary sources. Doctoral thesis of V. Ponta was devoted to a work of the International Criminal Court (ICC).

V. Ponta has categorically rejected accusations of plagiarism, claiming that he would be ready “to pass any test.” At the same time a head of the Romanian equivalent of the Higher Attestation Commission Marius Andruh in an interview with Nature, said that “the evidence of plagiarism is more than sufficient.”

In 2011-2012 because of allegations of plagiarism in the preparation of dissertations a number of senior European politicians have lost their posts. In March 2011 Karl-Teodortsu Guttenberg, in the thesis of which were found fragments borrowed, forced to leave the post of Minister of Defence of Germany and in April 2012 for a similar reason, Pal Schmitt resigned as president of Hungary. Both politicians had previously been denied scientific degrees.

Azerbaijani media have written about plagiarism of a chairman of the Constitutional Court F. Abdullayev but the question has been closed.

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