India, May 18 -- A Chinese beauty queen has been sentenced to 240 days in prison for using forged Ivy League credentials to secure admission to the University of Hong Kong (HKU). Li Sixuan, 28, had submitted fake documents claiming she completed a linguistics degree at Columbia University in New York.

Li pleaded guilty to two charges: obtaining services by deception and possessing a false instrument, reported local news website hk01. She had submitted fake documents claiming she completed a linguistics degree at Columbia University in New York.

She used the forged documents to apply for HKU's Master of Arts in Applied Linguistics programme in 2021 and was admitted in 2022. Li had won the Shenzhen Miss Universe beauty pageant in 2024.

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