Crotone, arrests for corruption: former school principal implicated

Carabinieri, Crotone Provincial Command

CROTONE - On Wednesday, November 12, 2025, the Carabinieri of the Investigative Unit of the Operations Department executed the precautionary custody order - house arrest - against two people: SI, 69, a former secondary school principal in Crotone, and CE, 40, owner of a school-university training course center in Crotone. Precautionary measures, issued by the Crotone Court – Preliminary Investigations Office – at the request of the local Public Prosecutor's Office, headed by Domenico Guarascio, for their involvement, in various capacities, in the commission of the crimes of "attempted extortion," "undue inducement to give or promise benefits," "false ideological and material falsity committed by a public official in public documents," "fraud," "embezzlement," "corruption," as well as "revealing and using official secrets." The investigations uncovered the following unlawful conduct against SI, 69, who at the time of the alleged events was the headmaster of a secondary school in Crotone: attempted extortion against a construction company in the province of Crotone that had carried out at least three jobs at a school managed by one of the arrested individuals.

Non-refundable amounts of money relating to an educational trip

Specifically, the person under investigation demanded that the company waive accrued credits for construction work previously carried out at her son's home, threatening to withhold future contracts from the school she managed or from other schools; undue inducement to give and promise benefits to a furniture salesman who had won a contract from the school, inducing the businessman to accept the promise of €3,500 in compensation for the contract, an obligation later converted into providing several free jobs, including a move; ideological and material falsehood committed in concert with other individuals in the selection process for teachers at the school she managed, with the aim of favoring one or more candidates, including for the purpose of defrauding the public administration; Embezzlement, as in his capacity as school principal, he embezzled non-refundable sums of money relating to a school trip in which a relative had participated without being entitled to it; and fraud, as in his capacity as school principal, in collusion with third parties through artifice and deception, he failed to notify the competent authorities for the imposition of the dismissal sanction.

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This was done in order to allow a family member to receive an unfair profit despite being absent from work; ideological falsity in a public document aimed at placing two of his family members in a suitable position on the ranking list for the project called "Fami 2014-2020" – Calabria Friends – when in reality the relevant commission had excluded their applications; embezzlement in that, in his capacity as school principal, he appropriated a ping-pong table, a foosball table, and two armchairs, owned by the school, removing them from the school and transferring them to a warehouse owned by him; ideological and material falsity, in that, in his capacity as school principal, he created false documents aimed at admitting a candidate to take the surveyor's high school diploma exams; Extortion, as he was a school principal, forced several professors and exam examiners , under threat of withholding their license to practice as freelance professionals, to promote a candidate who had presented himself for his high school diploma exams despite having demonstrated serious weaknesses in the exam subjects, and who was subsequently promoted. Corruption, as he was a school principal, in conjunction with other individuals, received and accepted the promise of payment from candidates taking the "TFA Sostegno" secondary school exam. This conduct consisted of receiving and then revealing to the candidates the answers to the pre-selection test questions for the exam in question, according to a press release from the Carabinieri.

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CE, a 40-year-old, is charged with: corruption, as a public prosecutor or police officer, currently unknown and in collusion with others, received and accepted the promise of payment from candidates taking the "TFA Sostegno" secondary school competitive exam. This conduct consisted of receiving and then revealing to the candidates the answers to the pre-selection test questions for the competition in question. Procedural fraud, as, after his cell phone was seized, he artificially altered the situation by lying to the phone company to obtain a new SIM card with the same number as the seized one, and by using that number to access his Telegram profile and delete certain chats. The case is still in the preliminary investigation phase; under the principle of the presumption of innocence, those arrested will be able to prove their innocence in court. This investigation is part of a broader investigation into public administration enforcement, undertaken by the Crotone Provincial Carabinieri Command under the aegis of the Crotone Public Prosecutor's Office.

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