The Chronicle News Blog: Corruption Scandal at Italian University Sweeps Up a Dozen People
Rome — Denouncing a “media pillory” that has deprived him of the presumption of innocence, the rector of a public university in southeastern Italy has resigned amid a criminal investigation into a large-scale university construction project. Oronzo Limone, who had been rector of the University of Salento since 2001, is under investigation by prosecutors and the police for irregularities in the approval of a humanities center to be located in a former tobacco factory in the city of Lecce.
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