Georgy Vasilovich Shchokin (ukr.: Гео́ргій Васи́льович Що́кін) (born May 27, 1954, in Zaporizhzhya is a Ukrainian (of Russian ethnicity) businessman, sociologist, psychologist and a politician. He is also the founder and owner of MAUP (a private college known for its close ties with David Duke and other Holocaust deniers).
Schokin graduated in 1981 from the Kyiv Pedagogical Institute. [1]
He is the founder and owner of the Interregional Academy of Personnel Management.
Shchokin heads the Ukrainian "Miloserdiye" Foundation. He is a part owner and vice-president of the two vanity presses — International Biographical Centre ( UK) and American Biographical Institute that have been described as scam operations. [2] [3] [4] [5]
Consumer Affairs Minister John Lenders has been asked to investigate a scam being run by a group called the American Biographical Institute after it told a Labor MP he would get a decree confirming his nomination as 2004 "man of the year" if he paid $ US 195 ( $ A 276) … [ Member for Mitcham] Mr Robinson said it was important the people behind the scam be stopped from requesting Australians to send money for a meaningless award… "It is very difficult to retrieve money from scams like this that are run overseas," [Mr. Lenders] said. "This is a scam that is well known to Consumer Affairs Victoria.