Mica Jovanovic

Montenegro's prosecutor's office has told the country's police to seek Interpol's help to determine whether Science Minister Sanja Vlahovic plagiarised her scientific work, media reported on Thursday.

The state prosecutor interrogated Vlahovic in May over claims that she plagiarized her research on tourism, after a watchdog, the Center for Civic Education, filed a law suit.

Serbia's Commission for Accreditation and Quality Assurance said it had detected irregularities at a private college that has been at the centre of plagiarism claims concerning a government minister.

The most important noted flaw is in the field of PhD studies and teaching staff employed at the Belgrade-based Megatrend university.

Professors seeking 'protection of academic honour' in Serbia

Miljana Radivojevic, a research associate at University College London who was involved in publicising the PhD claims, said on Friday that she is suing former rector Mica Jovanovic and another, unknown person who she accuses of hacking emails that she wrote about the subject.

Anonymous Serbia told Balkan Insight that it had nothing to do with hacking the emails of Miljana Radivojevic, a professor from University College London who wrote about the revelations that Megatrend University rector Mica Jovanovic did not get his PHD at the London School of Economics, as he had claimed.

Endre Pap, the president of the Commission for Accreditation and Quality Assurance, told BIRN on Monday that Megatrend University would face rigorous checks after the scandal which saw rector Mica Jovanovic resign.

BELGRADE - Education Minister Srdjan Verbic has said on Monday that the new public presentation of former Megatrend rector Mica Jovanovic's PhD from another university just confirms the ministry's previous statements.

BELGRADE - Mica Jovanovic, former rector of private Megatrend University, has publicly presented his doctoral thesis defended in late '80s before the British Council for National Academic Awards.

BELGRADE - The Megatrend University council aceepted on Saturday the resignation of rector Mica Jovanovic relieved him of office, the university has stated.

Jovanovic said on Friday he would resign as head of that private university and vice president of the Conference of Universities, which was requested by Education Minister Srdjan Verbic.

BELGRADE - The rector and owner of Belgrade's Megatrend University Mica Jovanovic said for state-run Radio Television of Serbia (RTS) on Friday that he was resigning from all his posts and that he was currently staying in London.

RTS said on its website Jovanovic was in the British capital seeking his “lost” doctorate.