Overview

• Naples prosecutors have registered Maria Rosaria Boccia as an investigative suspect for alleged falsehood, fraud and unauthorized attribution of others’ work in relation to her 2023 degree in Economics and Management.
• Italian financial police have acquired records from Università Parthenope, Università Pegaso and Luiss Guido Carli as part of document seizures to support the investigation.
• Prosecutors are probing an unsigned self-certification Boccia submitted in 2020 to recognize exams from Parthenope at Pegaso without formal verification.
• Magistrates are comparing Boccia’s thesis, titled "Il Sistema Sanitario Nazionale: luci e ombre di un’eccellenza italiana stretta dai vincoli della finanza pubblica", with a 2019 Luiss paper after anti-plagiarism software detected identical passages.
• Boccia has filed defamation complaints against media outlets and journalists she accuses of publishing unsubstantiated or manipulated claims about her academic record.