Yes I meant thesis plagiarizing/buying. That makes the degree fake, doesn't it? Actually when they're caught, the universities usually nullify the degree. There are cases everywhere, some have been caught and shamed in public like the German minister or Gadafi's son and the LSE having accepted his bribes, but nowadays there are thousands of cases waiting to come into light. But since the line between the current academia industry and outright corruption is pretty blurry... If you also add politics into the pot... Yeah.
Even Putin has a rather blatant one, but of course whoever dared to denounce it formally would end up in a ditch.
http://world.time.com/2013/02/28/put.../?iid=tsmodule