A new complaint has been received about the PhD thesis of the Prime Minister of Lithuania.
In the past, the university decided not to strip Sinkevičius of his candidate status for excessive plagiarism. The applicant requests once again to identify illegal loans and scientific dishonesty, and in case of gross violations, to compel the university to cancel the awarding of the degree.
He said the Turnitin system showed a match of 20 percent of the text, and an independent expert identified 22 instances of illegal copying, 18 of which were critical.
The ISM Ethics Committee on October 30 found five cases of plagiarism and two cases of text duplication in a 2015 study on "alcohol consumption".
In the past, Sinkevičius admitted the violations and promised to prepare a publicly accessible supplement with corrections. However, before the scandal grew, he repeatedly rejected accusations of plagiarism, claiming that the work was prepared according to standards.