Overview

• Ex-interior minister Vincenzo Scotti, director-general Pasquale Russo and rector Claudio Roveda were each sentenced to five years and six months in prison and barred from public office for five years.
• Stefano Mustica received five years and two months, Andrea Pisaniello three years and one month, and both Alessandro Pisaniello and SIULP secretary Felice Romano two years and two months.
• The court found that between 2016 and 2018 the university’s leadership and union figures organized falsified records, ghost professors and improvised exam locations to fast-track degrees for police officers.
• Prosecutors highlighted a SIULP-funded pact that steered officers to the Fondazione Sicurezza e Libertà’s courses, which benefited financially from tuition fees.
• Defense lawyers have announced plans to appeal once the tribunal’s detailed motivations are published, extending the legal battle.