{"id":14700,"date":"2025-11-12T12:01:03","date_gmt":"2025-11-12T11:01:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/italien.news\/?p=14700"},"modified":"2025-11-12T12:01:03","modified_gmt":"2025-11-12T11:01:03","slug":"corruption-at-school-principal-arrested-in-crotone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/italien.news\/en\/chronik\/korruption-an-schule-schulleiter-in-crotone-verhaftet\/","title":{"rendered":"Corruption at school: principal arrested in Crotone"},"content":{"rendered":"

CROTONE - A serious corruption and abuse of office scandal is rocking the public school system in Calabria. The Carabinieri of Crotone placed two people under house arrest today, November 12th<\/span>. The defendants are a 69-year-old former headmaster (S.I.) of a secondary school in Crotone and the 40-year-old owner (C.E.) of a local center for school and university courses<\/span>.<\/p>\n

The operation coordinated by the public prosecutor's office under the direction of Domenico Guarascio <\/span> exposes a suspected system of nepotism and self-service. The list of accusations is extensive and serious: it ranges from extortion, bribery, embezzlement and fraud to forgery of public documents and violation of official secrets<\/span>.<\/p>\n

A school principal acts like a \u201egodfather\u201c<\/h2>\n

The 69-year-old former director is at the center of the investigation<\/span>. He is accused of systematically exploiting his position. He allegedly tried to blackmail a construction company: The company was to waive claims for work on his son's house, otherwise he would withdraw future school contracts<\/span>. He allegedly demanded a \u201ecommission\u201c of 3,500 euros from a furniture supplier who had received a school order, which was later converted into free services, including a move<\/span>.<\/p>\n

The allegations of embezzlement and manipulation of audits are particularly serious. The ex-principal is not only said to have stolen school inventory such as a table football table and armchairs for private purposes, but also <\/span>and relatives were wrongly awarded posts and salaries<\/span>. He is also said to have forced teachers (examination commissioners) to promote a candidate who had failed the Matura (A-levels) by threatening to revoke their license for sideline activities<\/span>.<\/p>\n

Accomplice in examination fraud<\/h3>\n

Both of those arrested, S.I. and C.E., are also allegedly involved in a bribery scandal<\/span>. They allegedly accepted money from candidates for the \u201eT.F.A. Sostegno\u201c (an important test for remedial teachers) in order to give them the answers to the test questions in advance<\/span>. The 40-year-old C.E. is also accused of procedural fraud. After his cell phone was confiscated, he is said to have obtained a new SIM card with the same number in order to log into Telegram and delete incriminating chats<\/span>.<\/p>\n

The authorities emphasize that this action is part of a larger initiative to restore legality in public administration<\/span>. The presumption of innocence applies to all defendants until a final conviction is handed down<\/span>.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

CROTONE \u2013 Ein schwerer Korruptions- und Amtsmissbrauchsskandal ersch\u00fcttert das \u00f6ffentliche Schulwesen in Kalabrien. Die Carabinieri von Crotone haben am heutigen 12. November zwei Personen unter Hausarrest gestellt. Bei den Beschuldigten handelt es sich um einen 69-j\u00e4hrigen, ehemaligen Leiter (S.I.) einer weiterf\u00fchrenden Schule in Crotone sowie den 40-j\u00e4hrigen Inhaber (C.E.) eines lokalen Zentrums f\u00fcr Schul- und […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"video","meta":{"inwp_podcast_mp3":"","inwp_podcast_apple":"","inwp_podcast_spotify":"","inwp_podcast_youtube":"","inw_restaurant_url":"","inw_restaurant_lat":"","inw_restaurant_lng":"","in_event_type":"","in_event_featured":"","in_event_teaser":"","in_event_name":"","in_event_address":"","in_event_status":"","in_event_turnus":"","inw_hotel_email":"","inw_hotel_type":"","inw_hotel_name":"","inw_hotel_street":"","inw_hotel_zip":"","inw_hotel_city":"","inw_hotel_region":"","inw_hotel_country":"","inw_hotel_phone":"","inw_hotel_url":"","inw_hotel_lat":"","inw_hotel_lng":"","inw_hotel_pricerange":"","inw_hotel_stars":"","inw_hotel_amenities":"","in_event_start":"","in_event_end":"","in_event_time":"","in_event_time_end":"","in_event_location":"","in_event_city":"","in_event_region":"","in_event_price":"","in_event_organizer":"","in_event_url":"","in_event_sort":"","in_event_sort_end":"","jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":{"format":"video","override":[{"template":"1","parallax":"1","fullscreen":"1","layout":"right-sidebar","sidebar":"single-left","second_sidebar":"default-sidebar","sticky_sidebar":"1","share_position":"topbottom","share_float_style":"share-normal","show_view_counter":"1","show_featured":"1","show_post_meta":"1","show_post_author":"1","show_post_date":"1","post_date_format":"default","post_date_format_custom":"Y\/m\/d","show_post_reading_time":"1","post_reading_time_wpm":"300","post_calculate_word_method":"str_word_count","show_zoom_button":"1","zoom_button_out_step":"2","zoom_button_in_step":"3","show_post_tag":"1","show_prev_next_post":"1","number_popup_post":"4","show_post_related":"1","show_inline_post_related":"1"}],"image_override":[{"single_post_thumbnail_size":"crop-500","single_post_gallery_size":"crop-500"}],"trending_post_position":"meta","trending_post_label":"Trending","sponsored_post_label":"Sponsored by","disable_ad":"0","subtitle":"Ein Korruptionsskandal ersch\u00fcttert Crotone: Ein ehemaliger Schulleiter und der Inhaber eines Bildungszentrums stehen unter Hausarrest. Die Liste der Vorw\u00fcrfe ist lang und reicht von Erpressung und Betrug bis hin zur Veruntreuung von Schulm\u00f6beln. Die Carabinieri legen ein System aus Gef\u00e4lligkeiten und Amtsmissbrauch offen.","video":"https:\/\/italien.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/video.mp4"},"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"jnews_override_counter":{"view_counter_number":"0","share_counter_number":"0","like_counter_number":"0","dislike_counter_number":"0"},"footnotes":""},"categories":[138],"tags":[2345,180,10585,2030,183,2052,10586],"class_list":["post-14700","post","type-post","status-publish","format-video","hentry","category-chronik","tag-betrug","tag-carabinieri","tag-crotone","tag-erpressung","tag-hausarrest","tag-kalabrien","tag-korruption","post_format-post-format-video"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/italien.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14700","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/italien.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/italien.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/italien.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/italien.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14700"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/italien.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14700\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/italien.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14700"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/italien.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14700"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/italien.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14700"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}