Public Prosecutor at the Court of Perugia
PRESS RELEASE
Today, by delegation of this Public Prosecutor's Office, members of the Economic-Financial Police Unit of the Guardia di Finanza of Perugia have executed an order for the application of the precautionary measure of suspension, for eight months, from the exercise of public office for Rector Prof. Giuliana GRECO, General Director dott. Simone OLIVIERI, Prof. Stefania SPINA and for the member of the "Celi Immigrati" commission, prof. Lorenzo ROCCA of the University for Foreigners of Perugia, for the final offenses of disclosure of office secrecy to undue financial gain and multiple falsehoods in public documents.
After the searches and seizures of 22 September 2020, the investigations - carried on without interruption and in strict compliance with the principle of confidentiality - have significantly corroborated the evidential framework that had already been outlined in relation to the organization, by the suspects, during a session set up ad personam, of a "farce" exam, which allowed the release of the certificate of knowledge of the Italian language type "B1" to the well-known Uruguayan footballer Luis Alberto SUAREZ DIAZ, an indispensable requirement for obtaining of citizenship.
In particular, it emerged that the contents of the test had been previously communicated to the player himself, coming to predetermine the outcome and the exam score, to correspond to the requests that had been made by Juventus, with the aim of achieving a positive return of terms of image, both personal and for the University.
The investigations also made it possible to understand how, in the first days of September 2020, the management of the Turin club had taken action, even at the highest institutional levels, to "accelerate" the recognition of Italian citizenship towards Suarez, thus making the hypothesis of new incriminations against persons other than those belonging to the university, which are currently being studied.
Sharing the accusatory hypotheses, the Judge for the preliminary investigations ordered the precautionary measures having noted "the concrete and current risk that the suspects, if not subjected to appropriate caution, re-propose criminal conduct similar to those for which it proceeds, having shown that consider the institution they belong to and which they represent as a res privata manageable at will."
Perugia, December 4, 2020
The Procurator of the Republic Raffaele Cantone
