The Minister of Finance, Sinisa Mal, was recognized in Serbia with the degree of Doctor of Science, which he obtained at the Technical University in Slovakia. That's for Today confirmed by the Agency for Qualifications, within which the process of recognition of foreign higher education documents is carried out.
At the end of June, Mali announced on his Instagram profile that after three years of doctoral studies at the Faculty of Economics of the Technical University in Slovakia, he defended his doctoral dissertation entitled "The Flypaper Effect in the Republic of Serbia".
He previously announced on his Instagram account that he is, "sometimes in life you need to be challenged, in order to gather courage, continue on and show that you can", and added that "he does it for his soul".
At the University of Belgrade, the doctorate was annulled, then returned
Let us remind you that on December 21, 2021, the Senate of the University of Belgrade made a decision to cancel the diploma and the diploma supplement for the acquired title of Doctor of Science of Sinisa Malom after it was determined that he had plagiarized his doctoral dissertation.
Sinisa Malog's appeal against this decision was unanimously rejected at the session of the Board for Professional Ethics in January of this year.
However, already in March The Administrative Court issued a verdict annulling the decision of the Senate of the University of Belgrade, which revoked Sinisa Mal's doctorate degree. With this verdict, his diploma and doctorate were returned to him.
After an almost decade-long legal battle, Siniša Mali now has two doctoral degrees.
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