Provisional member Sachin Sharma has been found guilty by an ICAEW Tribunal Committee of plagiarising the work of a colleague when submitting his ‘A’ case study mock exam for assessment.
By copying the answer and submitting the work as his own, when he knew it was not his, meant he broke the ICAEW’s code of ethics!
Sharman, who is from Birmingham, has been severely reprimanded, and ordered to pay a financial penalty of £700 and costs of £2,300.
In a total separate case provision member Balraj Oberoi was also found guilty of plagiarising information from the model answer in a mock he submitted to his training provider. His status as a provisional member was withdrawn and he is ineligible to reregister for such status for two years. He was also ordered to pay £9,000 costs.
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