“I wrote the work myself, I’ve already said it, probably more than once, and I think that topic should be closed now. Investigations can be started, I don’t think they will change or deny that the dissertation was prepared and defended publicly, it was accessible, visible,” the Prime Minister told reporters at the Government on Thursday.
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“Of course, perhaps after changing a political, how to say, position after 11 years, it became relevant and interesting to the public or to individual persons, but I am completely calm that even if investigations are started, they will end favorably and that topic will be closed,” he said.
Among other things, M. Sinkevičius stated that while studying for his third-cycle – doctoral studies, they were financed by state funds.
BNS announced that recently, questions have been raised on social networks regarding M. Sinkevičius’s doctoral dissertation. The latest episode is about possible plagiarism, where excerpts from other authors’ works are presented under his name.
The Academic Ethics and Procedures Controller told BNS on Thursday that the service had received one complaint regarding M. Sinkevičius’s dissertation and forwarded it to the university.
ISM, in turn, confirmed on Thursday that it had received an official inquiry about a possible transgression. It will be evaluated and examined according to the procedures in force at the university.
The University’s Ethics Commission will have ten calendar days to decide whether the complaint will be investigated.
In 2007, M. Sinkevičius obtained a Bachelor’s degree in management and business administration at the Faculty of Economics of Vilnius University, and in 2008, he completed Bachelor’s studies in law at Mykolas Romeris University.
In 2009, he obtained a Master’s degree in marketing and management at ISM University of Management and Economics, and in 2015, he defended his doctoral dissertation at the same university.
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