Unfortunatelly, the case of the Press Secretary is not something happening only in the US. I remember many years ago, in Spain, the fist time the director of the country police department (Guardia Civil) was a politician, ended up as a complete dissaster as he was corrupted and years later they found he also lied about his university degrees. He ended up in prison several years.
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Luis Roldán's case (former Director-General of the Civil Guard between 1986 and 1993) marked a milestone in Spain's history as the first major public scandal involving the forgery of academic degrees and résumés within the country's political sphere.
During his political rise within the PSOE—a period in which he became deputy mayor of Zaragoza, Government Delegate in Navarre, and top head of the Civil Guard—Roldán padded his official record with several completely non-existent prestigious degrees. In his public biography, he claimed to hold:
• A Degree in Industrial Engineering: Falsely presented as his foundational technical qualification.
• A Bachelor's Degree in Business Administration: Another higher-education degree he never actually studied.
• A Master's Degree in Economics: A postgraduate qualification he used to justify his alleged expertise in budget management.
The academic reality uncovered by journalistic and judicial investigations in late 1993 was radically different: Luis Roldán only had a high school education. He did not possess any completed university degree or legitimate postgraduate training at the time he held high office. Paradoxically, the only college degree he ever legitimately earned (a Bachelor's Degree in Political Science from the UNED) was studied and completed years later while serving his sentence at the Brieva prison in Ávila.
Although the degree forgery was a devastating blow to his credibility and a profound abuse of institutional trust, from a legal standpoint, it took a back seat. Roldán was ultimately sentenced to 31 years in prison due to the severity of the financial crimes he committed using his position. These included the embezzlement of millions from state secret funds, accepting illegal kickbacks for building Civil Guard barracks (known as the "barracks scam"), fraud, bribery, and tax evasion.
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