Fake degree? RPK zeroes in on Kamalanathan
(Free Malaysia Today) – Popular blogger Raja Petra Kamarudin remains unconvinced about Barisan Nasional candidate P Kamalathan’s educational qualification.
His doubts continue to linger despite Kamalanathan posting his degree, obtained from the Edith Cowan University (ECU) in Australia, on his blog today.
In an immediate response, Raja Petra penned an article with the title “It just does not add up”, and posed the question if the certificate was forged.
This is a serious allegation and candidates who state fraudulent information in their nomination papers would be disqualified.
“We tried verifying his certificate but it appears like what he uploaded on his blog may be a fake certificate after all.
“The certificate in fact raises more questions than it provided answers. Is this certificate a forgery?” asked the blogger, who is known for his controversial disclosures.
Raja Petra said the BN candidate’s certificate carries the name ‘P Kamalanathanlp. Panchanathan’ with the parchment number 2004100372, and the date stated as Jan 23, 2004.
“However, a search that we did still does not produce any results whereas we did two other searches on other people (also Olympia College twinning students) and they came back positive.
“We also tried using six different name variations but they all came back blank.
“Note that the name we used in the search on ‘Claire’ was not complete yet it came back positive. It could still trace the details even with the incomplete name,” he said, providing screenshots of the searches done and a link to the search engine.
