(ANSA) Bari, October 13 - A prosecutor asked Monday for 65
university professors and students to receive prison terms from
three years to six months on charges of rigging entrance exams
to the medicine faculties of Bari and Ancona universities.
Bari public prosecutor Ettore Cardinali demanded the
heaviest prison terms of 3 years and a fine of 400 euros for
gynaecologist Giuseppe Varcaccio and Prof. Maurizio Procaccini,
director of the dental faculty in Ancona.
The prosecutor asked the court to sentence a computer
technician, Francesco Avellis,and Emanuele Valenziano, one of
the candidates in the exams, to prison terms of 2 years and 4
months and 2 years and 6 months respectively for having set up a
system sending answers by text message to the exams held Sept. 4
and 5, 2007.
The prosecutor also asked sentences of 2 years and 4 months
for as many as 51 defendants, students and parents, for fraud.
A further 30 defendants had potential sentences of 4 months
imprisonment converted to fines of 5,000 euros after they
pleaded guilty to taking part in the mass cheating scam.
The university of Bari asked for civil damages of nearly 1
million euro as compensation for damage to its image through the
affair while the University of the Marche asked for 100,000
euros damages.
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