Thesis scandal benilde

Paras is sent this receipt by Santos as proof of their payment to pass. Santos graduated in March 2019, while Tan graduated in October 2019. Rappler sought the side of Tan and Santos on December 3, and Cotas on December 9, through Facebook. We reached out to all of them again on January 23 through their Facebook messenger accounts.

Echoing Tan’s narrative, Santos said his group also paid P20,000 to pass their class. Both bribing incidents apparently occurred in the October to December trimester of 2018. Their thesis groups were different but the faculty member they accused of masterminding the scheme was the same: thesis coordinator Ariel Pineda.

The thesis for the program is called the export project. It's a two-trimester subject divided between export project 1 and export project 2. The first requires aspiring exporters to craft and present a detailed feasibility plan, and the second, usually the easier one, entails accounting.

Ariel Pineda is a professor at De La Salle-College of Saint Benilde's Export Management Program. Based on chat conversations between Paras and Tan shown to Rappler, the alumni themselves had asked if they could bribe their way through in their thesis project. To aid in his complaint, Paras asked Tan via Facebook chat how the transaction happened.