Peru prosecutors to probe plagiarism claim against president
ABC News
Peru’s prosecutor’s office has said it is investigating President Pedro Castillo and his wife for alleged plagiarism after a television station said an investigation showed the couple may have copied more than half the master’s thesis they co-authored
LIMA, Peru -- Peru’s prosecutor’s office announced Thursday that it is investigating President Pedro Castillo and his wife for alleged plagiarism after a local television station said an investigation showed the couple may have copied more than half the master’s thesis they co-authored.
Panamericana television’s Panorama program used a transparency request to obtain the text of the 121-page thesis and submitted it to the plagiarism detection service Turnitin. Panorama said the couple appeared to have plagiarized 54% of it from other authors.
The station also said that two of the three professionals who validated the thesis do not exist in the national identity registry. Castillo and his wife Lilia Paredes, both primary school teachers in Tacabamba district, used the thesis for a master’s degree in educational psychology from César Vallejo University more than a decade ago.
The probe is being carried out by a prosecutor in Tacabamba. César Vallejo University has also appointed a commission to investigate.