Ida Sisca, the former principal of the “Pertini-Santoni” of Crotone, accused of having set up an alleged system of favors and corruption around the high school between 2021 and 2022, has asked for a plea deal. And together with her, another 5 defendants want to agree on the sentence with the Prosecutor’s Office, including the son-in-law of the former director, Ernesto Calabretta, former manager of the “E-Campus” educational center. While six chose the abbreviated procedure. Thus ended yesterday, in front of the Crotone Gup, Assunta Palumbo, the preliminary hearing for the 23 defendants involved in the investigation which came to light on 11 November 2025 with the house arrest imposed on Sisca and Calabretta. Followed, 8 days later, by the house arrest of Giovanni Carbone, a member of the “Gea Training of Rome” active in the training sector, and by the suspension from service of two teachers of the “Pertini-Santoni”: the former vice-principal Francesca Arcuri and Lucia Rita Muscò. It will now be up to the judge to evaluate the adequacy of the sentences agreed between the defense and the prosecutor Rosaria Multari, and then possibly apply 4 years and 6 months of prison to Sisca and 3 years and 8 months of imprisonment to Calabretta.
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