The man proposed as Myanmar’s new finance and planning minister has a fake degree in finance, it has emerged.

Kyaw Win admitted buying the bogus PhD from a fictitious online university – Brooklyn Park in the US – which sold fake qualifications from Pakistan.

He was caught when the National League for Democracy party, which is forming the new government, made his CV public.

It remains to be seen if Kyaw Win remains on the list of cabinet ministers to take office next week.

A party spokesman said the fake degree did not matter..

A check found the title still on his LinkedIn page, reports the BBC’s Jonah Fisher.

Kyaw Win wrote a number of articles on economics and finance using his fake title.

If the former civil servant is confirmed as minister, he will be responsible for a huge budget and his honesty and accuracy will be vital to the smooth running of Aung San Suu Kyi’s new government in Myanmar, also called Burma.

Brooklyn Park University was among the websites exposed as making tens of millions of dollars in estimated revenue from fake degrees back to Pakistan.