The Cabinet on Monday commended Ministry of Higher Education for cracking down government employees - citizens and expatriates - whose education certificate were fake.

The ministry has been examining university certificates of government employees and referred many of them to Public Prosecution after concluding their certificates were fake.

The Cabinet, chaired by Acting Premier and Foreign Minister Sheikh Sabah Khaled Al-Hamad Al-Sabah, is determined to take legal action against people with fake certificates and pursue those who facilitated acquisition of these certificates, Deputy Premier and Minister of State for Cabinet Affairs Anas Al-Saleh said in a statement after the Cabinet meeting.