Finance police have opened an new
investigation into alleged corruption at Perugia's University
for Foreigners stemming from the case of the sham
Italian-language exam taken by soccer player Luis Suarez, ANSA
sources said on Tuesday.
The investigation is into alleged irregularities in the
recruitment of university researchers and teachers, the sources
said.
Around 20 people are under investigation.
The university's current management are not implicated in the
probe, the sources said.
Earlier this year prosecutors notified four suspects that they
had concluded an investigation into the exam Suarez did at the
university last year, a step usually comes before prosecutors
request indictments.
The four people are the former dean of the university, Giuliana
Grego Bolli, the former director general Simone Olivieri, a
teacher, Stefania Spina, and a lawyer, Maria Cesarina Turco.
The examiner who did the test, taken in view of a move to
Juventus which subsequently fell through, plea-bargained a
one-year suspended jail term for fraud in February.
Veteran Uruguay star Suarez went from Barca to Atletico Madrid
after the Juve deal collapsed.
The language exam, in which he was fed the answers, was needed
for him to qualify for Italian citizenship and thus join the
roster of the Turin giants without adding to their roll of
overseas players, which was already full.
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