The unnamed man was rejected by the Swedish officers’ academy in Enköping because he had no school-leaving diploma. Undeterred, he forged that qualification as well as a political science degree and moved on directly to the armed forces. Now the Swedish armed forces concede the man who claimed to have graduated from the military academy in 1999 had been “wrongfully employed”. He was exposed and a report filed but the man, undeterred, was recruited again last summer as a commander for the Swedish contingent of a UN mission to Mali. The tale has echoes of Friedrich Voigt, a shoemaker from Köpenick, east of Berlin.

Source: The Irish Times January 17, 2020 18:11 UTC