Suárez and the alleged scam, where the investigation originates: the university, the agreement with a Chinese agency and a “hole” of 3 million

The current administration has always spoken of “irregularities” committed by the previous management: Rector Giuliana Grego Bolli and general manager Simone Olivieri, who are now under investigation for the Suárez case, called a press conference in January 2020 to explain the “imperfect and omisive management” of the previous administration. In March 2019, they say, tuition revenue was found to be lower than in 2017, although the number of students in Marco Polo Turandot courses was the same. By that time she was gone an internal investigation that had revealed “a serious and very confusing administrative situation”. In addition, it turned out that in 2015 the University had signed two agreements with a Chinese agency, “of which the previous government had not even realized”, which guaranteed “exceptionally high” discounts (between 37 and 39%). The “gap” of three million would be those that the Chinese agency would have had to pay for student tuition fees. Faced with the impossibility of recovering the credits, the university has written them down 100% in the current budget and in the meantime has informed the Public Ministry and the Court of Accounts of the matter with a complaint. To those who had pointed out to the rector that she was the rector at that time, and therefore could report the irregular situation, Grego Bolli responded as follows: «Here the vice rector does not even participate in the organizations and has a substitute role. I was never informed of the administrative management and I never asked for anything ».

But there is more: Despite an obvious drop in enrollment and a flight of foreign students to the University of Siena, the University has hired six tenured professors in the last year. The auditors have asked for prudence, because, respecting the supposed limits of the ministry, there is a risk of new accounting shortages: each ordinary costs approximately 100,000 euros. Meanwhile, student enrollments in the 2019-2020 courses, as of December 31, were 494.79 less than the previous year. In total there were 1,080 affiliates, 10.8% less. And yet, Chinese students had gone from an average of 6-700 per year to just under 250.

Grego Bolli also defended himself in this regard, speaking of retirements (five) that come to be compensated, and explaining that the recruitment had been absolutely regular, “four competitions open to Italians and foreigners, in the name of maximum competition”, as he writes . Umbria 24.Finally, employees were also screened to verify any suspicious absenteeism.. There was no dispute, and the rector boasted of a “healthy university, with great potential and excellent skills.” But now the university was under scrutiny. And now the investigation of the Umbrian prosecutor’s office questions the rector Giuliana Bolli Grego and the general director of the university Simone Olivieri, as well as the professor Stefania Spina and the examiner Lorenzo Rocca, for the crime of revealing an office secret.

For the prosecutor of Perugia, they would have anticipated the content of the oral examination five days ago, After which the certificate of knowledge of the Italian language was issued to the Barcelona player at level B1 of the Common European Framework of Reference for Knowledge of Languages ​​(CEFR) necessary to obtain Italian citizenship, in order to provide him with the economic advantages related to access to the process of granting community citizenship ”.