Georgy Shchokin
Georgy Vasilovich Shchokin (ukr.: Гео́ргій Васи́льович Що́кін) (born May 27, 1954, in Zaporizhzhya is a Ukrainian (of Russian ethnicity) businessman, sociologist, psychologist and a politician. He is also the founder and owner of MAUP (a private college known for its close ties with David Duke and other Holocaust deniers).
Biography
[edit]Schokin graduated in 1981 from the Kyiv Pedagogical Institute.[1]
He is the founder and owner of the Interregional Academy of Personnel Management.
Shchokin heads the Ukrainian "Miloserdiye" Foundation. He is a part owner and vice-president of the two vanity presses — International Biographical Centre (UK) and American Biographical Institute that have been described as scam operations.[2][3][4][5]
References
[edit]- ^ Конец времен: пророчества и комментарии
- ^ Richard Baker (27 August 2004). "Scam of the year a snip at $195". The Age.
Consumer Affairs Minister John Lenders has been asked to investigate a scam being run by a group called the American Biographical Institute after it told a Labor MP he would get a decree confirming his nomination as 2004 "man of the year" if he paid $ US 195 ($ A 276) … [Member for Mitcham] Mr Robinson said it was important the people behind the scam be stopped from requesting Australians to send money for a meaningless award… "It is very difficult to retrieve money from scams like this that are run overseas," [Mr. Lenders] said. "This is a scam that is well known to Consumer Affairs Victoria.
- ^ Parliament of New South Wales (6 April 2005) [1 March 2005]. "Peace Prize Scam". Archived from the original on 29 September 2007.
- ^ Rajesh Kochhar (16 January 1999). "The Sucker of the Year Award". The Tribune.
- ^ Tim Heald (February 2005). "I have been nominated for an International Peace Prize!". The Heald Report. Archived from the original on 2007-08-09.
External links
[edit]- Хто є хто в Україні 1997: Біографічний словник. — К., 1997. — С. 302—303.
- Межрегиональная академия управления персоналом
- American Biographical Institute