Paraguay Prosecutor Seeks to Invalidate 144 Teachers' Diplomas

Paraguay's Prosecutor's Office has requested that the Ministry of Education and Sciences (MEC) and the National Council of Higher Education (Cones) initiate legal action to invalidate the diplomas of 144 teachers and subsequently cancel their professional licenses.

Prosecutor Teresa Sosa explained that universities must file lawsuits before first-instance civil judges to nullify the legal standing of these forged diplomas. Since the falsity of these documents is certain, a judicial resolution can strip them of all legal value. During a meeting at the MEC, Sosa urged the Cones to prompt university rectors to pursue this legal process for the fraudulent credentials.

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The exact word is not the nullity of the title, but that they do not have legal relevance; that is, that document is no longer useful.

The central objective, Sosa emphasized, is to render these documents legally irrelevant. "The exact word is not the nullity of the title, but that they do not have legal relevance; that is, that document is no longer useful," she stated. Once a court orders the loss of legal efficacy, this is notified to all public institutions, allowing for the withdrawal of the documents from records. The Prosecutor's Office has already forwarded a group of 144 diplomas to the MEC, initiating the process with the involved universities, which have confirmed they never issued these documents.

Sosa aims to complete this administrative and legal process before the end of the year, as the 2026 academic year concludes on November 30. Many of the individuals involved are public school teachers. Once the court invalidates these diplomas, the MEC can proceed with canceling the teachers' professional registrations. The Prosecutor's Office is pursuing this action in August to ensure the process concludes by November, preventing those with fraudulent qualifications from continuing in classrooms or public service roles.

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These titles are no longer authentic because the university has already informed in writing that they never issued them. There is no turning back, they are false.