Ata school staff hired thanks to qualifications obtained in ‘diploma factories’: this is what the financial police of Treviso hypothesizes, which concluded an investigation by reporting 25 people to the Prosecutor’s Office for ideological falsity committed by a private individual in a public act.
The investigation, a development of the ‘101 cum laude’ operation of 2021 (when it was ascertained that 101 people had falsely certified that they had obtained professional qualification diplomas with a mark of 100 cents), involved the service qualifications that candidates for the competition announced by the Ministry of Education, valid for the purposes of the fixed-term hiring of ATA school staff (Administrative, Technical, Auxiliary), declared to have achieved in two private schools in Campania.
In previous investigations, coordinated by the Public Prosecutor’s Office of Nocera Inferiore (Salerno), it emerged that those institutions were ‘diploma factories’ and not schools active in the provision of regular educational activities.
The checks, carried out by the Treviso financiers by crossing the results of the investigations carried out in Nocera Inferiore with the data of the competitors, revealed the positions of 25 candidates, who would have falsely certified that they had served for several months or years in these ‘diploma factories’, benefiting from scores useful for illicitly overtaking, in the general ranking, those who had declared qualifications actually obtained. An expedient which, according to the investigators, allowed them, in the two-year period 2018/2020, to secure employment as school collaborators in various schools in Treviso.
Measures to terminate the employment contract have already been adopted by school office managers against collaborators, administrative assistants and technicians without qualifications. Now, those reported will have to defend themselves from criminal charges for false conduct.
