The director of Romania's State Office for Inventions and Trademarks (OSIM), Varga Gabor, and the human resources director with the same institution are being investigated after one of OSIM's employees forged his study papers to get a better job.

In 2009, the employee, who quit his job earlier this year, brought in a paper saying he held a bachelor degree, which helped him get a higher salary  at OSIM, while in 2012, the man was moved to the Office of Harmonization for the Internal Market (OHIM), OSIM's European counterpart.

The employee caused a prejudice of EUR 25,000, the salaries cashed in from OSIM between 2009 and 2012, and of EUR 17,000, the amount he earned while being relocated to OHIM.

When OSIM representatives asked for a bachelor's degree diploma, the man handed in a fake document. The OSIM leadership is currently being investigated for not having notified the prosecutors immediately when they found out the study documents were fake.

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