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I found this news article about the former head of european equity derivatives at Credit Suisse who filled in for a student to help him pass his final year exams absolutey hilarious.

Jerome Drean, 34, the former head of European equity derivatives trading at Credit Suisse, was arrested at the University of York while using a false identity to impersonate the 22-year-old economics student.

The French banker, who has also held a senior position with the Bank of America, was pretending to be Elnar Askerov, an Azerbaijani undergraduate. He is believed to have sat up to eight crucial exams, using a false identity card, before university authorities realised that he was an impostor.

The scam by Askerov and Drean was uncovered on the day that another York economics student, Qiu Shi Zhang, 23, had persuaded his friend and fellow Chinese student, Xin Zhang, 24, to sit the business finance paper on his behalf.

Later on in the article…

Xin, who is short, skinny and bespectacled, bore little resemblance to the ID photograph of Qiu, who was tubby and long-haired, which immediately alerted invigilators.