Luis Suarez accused of passing rigged Italian language exam, according to prosecutors - CNN: According to the chief prosecutor, the five employees could go to trial for revealing official secrets and ideological falsehood, while Suarez is not currently under investigation.
Grazie @LuisSuarez9 per la tua visita di oggi all'Universit� per Stranieri di Perugia. � stato un piacere averti come studente!@UniStraPg @GregoBolli #unistrapg pic.twitter.com/etaNYEryN8
— Stefania Spina (@sspina) September 17, 2020
"During the investigation carried out since February 2020 by the Financial police of Perugia for different cases related to the University for Foreigners of Perugia, irregularities emerged in the certification of the Italian language test carried out on September 17 by the soccer player from Uruguay, Luis Alberto Suarez Diaz," said a statement from Raffaele Cantone, the chief prosecutor in Perugia.
"From the investigation, it emerged that the topics of the exam were previously agreed with the candidate and that the final score of the exam was established ahead of the exam, although an elementary knowledge of the Italian language appeared on the online classes with the university teachers."
In a conversation intercepted by investigators only two days before the exams, one of Suarez's teachers, Stefania Spina, acknowledged the forward "doesn't speak one word of Italian" and shouldn't pass the exam, but that "he will, since you can't blow up 10 million euros ($11.7 million) of a seasonal salary just because you don't have a B1," according to the prosecutor's statement.
Grazie @LuisSuarez9 per la tua visita di oggi all'Universit� per Stranieri di Perugia. � stato un piacere averti come studente!@UniStraPg @GregoBolli #unistrapg pic.twitter.com/etaNYEryN8
— Stefania Spina (@sspina) September 17, 2020
"During the investigation carried out since February 2020 by the Financial police of Perugia for different cases related to the University for Foreigners of Perugia, irregularities emerged in the certification of the Italian language test carried out on September 17 by the soccer player from Uruguay, Luis Alberto Suarez Diaz," said a statement from Raffaele Cantone, the chief prosecutor in Perugia.
"From the investigation, it emerged that the topics of the exam were previously agreed with the candidate and that the final score of the exam was established ahead of the exam, although an elementary knowledge of the Italian language appeared on the online classes with the university teachers."
In a conversation intercepted by investigators only two days before the exams, one of Suarez's teachers, Stefania Spina, acknowledged the forward "doesn't speak one word of Italian" and shouldn't pass the exam, but that "he will, since you can't blow up 10 million euros ($11.7 million) of a seasonal salary just because you don't have a B1," according to the prosecutor's statement.