The Rome Public Prosecutor’s Office has opened a file following a complaint about the academic career of Labour Minister Marina Calderone. The file currently includes no suspects and no formal allegations of criminal activity.
The complaint was submitted by Saverio Regasto, a professor of comparative public law at the University of Brescia. He asked prosecutors to verify the legitimacy of qualifications obtained by Calderone in 2012 and 2016 from Link Campus University. Regasto attached press articles to his filing and requested checks for any irregularities that might suggest criminal offences.
Minister Calderone responded with a written statement. “I take note with great satisfaction of what my lawyer, Cesare Placanica, communicated to me,” she said. “The Public Prosecutor’s Office at the Court of Rome, in relation to the complaint concerning my university career, has confirmed there is no hypothesis of crime. As a result, no one has been entered in the register of crime reports.”
Calderone added: “For me, after such an authoritative endorsement, fully in line with what I have always maintained, the story ends here.”
She concluded by saying she intends to take further legal steps. “At this point, I have the duty to proceed for the crime of defamation for every malicious insinuation against me.”
