 Between late 2005 – 2006 Hwang was accused of a series of misconducts . The first allegations related to his work prior to Snuppy ; the claim that he had successfully cloned a human embryo . The charges alleged Hwang had paid for egg donations and that some of eggs came from his employees , which constitute serious breaches of the code of bioethics . It was later found that photographs he published did not depict what was suggested and that most of the stem @-@ cell lines he claimed to have created were not clones at all . This brought serious doubts onto the validity of Snuppy , which Hwang consistently claimed was a genuine clone . Hwang hired HumanPass Inc . , a Korean DNA lab to investigate Snuppy , who found that Snuppy was authentic . The findings by HumanPass were dismissed on the grounds that they were employed by Hwang , and a panel at the Seoul National University ordered their own investigation . The investigation found that , despite his fabrications in previous projects , Hwang 's research related to Snuppy was accurate and Snuppy was a clone of the adult Afghan hound . As a result of his forgeries , Hwang was indicted for fraud and dismissed from the university . 
