{"id":14059,"date":"2013-10-11T15:00:09","date_gmt":"2013-10-11T14:00:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.diaryofanadi.co.uk\/?p=14059"},"modified":"2013-10-11T15:00:09","modified_gmt":"2013-10-11T14:00:09","slug":"bulgarian-driving-test-fraud","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/?p=14059","title":{"rendered":"Bulgarian Driving Test Fraud"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This is a story from Bulgaria, <strong>about<\/strong> Bulgaria, before the George Flag wavers get all excited. Apparently, <a title=\"Bulgaria to change driving licence test system after probe finds corruption\" href=\"http:\/\/sofiaglobe.com\/2013\/10\/11\/bulgaria-to-change-driving-licence-test-system-after-probe-finds-corruption\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">from 2014 all Theory Tests in Bulgaria<\/a> will have to <img decoding=\"async\" title=\"Tablet computer\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 254px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 254\/154;border-top: 0px; border-right: 0px; background-image: none; border-bottom: 0px; float: left; padding-top: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin: 5px 10px 5px 0px; border-left: 0px; display: inline; padding-right: 0px\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Tablet computer\" align=\"left\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.diaryofanadi.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/tablet_pc1.jpg\" width=\"254\" height=\"154\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" class=\"lazyload\">be completed using tablets (that\u2019s \u201ctablets\u201d like the one shown on the left for any British ADIs looking in, and not the kind you take for incontinence).<\/p>\n<p>This change is coming about due to the discovery that the existing pen and paper test is prone to corruption, and that the entire staff of the Road Administration Agency in Sofia had been found guilty of manipulating test results. Even to the point of opening sealed envelopes and substituting the correct answer sheets. And 80 private driving schools were also involved in the fraud. No one knows how long it had been going on, or how many people had gained licences based on fraudulent results. Nor does anyone know who made how much out of the fraud.<\/p>\n<p>I guess we\u2019ll never know, but I wonder if Bulgaria is suffering the same wave of whingeing that we had over here when the DSA decide to move away from laminated pictures of a few road signs and start using those new-fangled computers? Or like that when they introduced the Hazard Perception Test?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is a story from Bulgaria, about Bulgaria, before the George Flag wavers get all excited. 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