Suspended sentence for professor who demanded kickbacks from students

[Yiannis Liakos/Intime News]

A tribunal has sentenced a assemblage prof to 17 months’ imprisonment, suspended for 3 years, aft uncovering him blameworthy of attempting to extort his students.

According to the indictment, the prof had demanded that researchers participating successful assemblage programs that helium supervised manus implicit a portion of their monthly probe grants.

Typically, helium told his PhD students and postgraduates that if they did not wage a kickback of 300-400 euros from their probe grants, helium would artifact consequent payments oregon region them from the programs.

“He threatened to intervene to person 4 monthly payments returned if I did not wage him 300 euros retired of my 720-euro grant,” 1 of the complainants said.

In his defense, the prof said that helium had told his students and researchers that if they did nary work, they would person to instrumentality their grants.