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You offer the source, Greek professors…

… will steal from it.

After decades of honing their larceny on their own government’s education subsidies, they seem to find stealing European Union education money a piece of cake.

Roughly translated, the title here is WHERE’D YOU GET THE PORSCHE?

The London Evening Standard looks at the details behind the professors’ acquisition of around – in American dollars – three hundred million:

It is claimed that over 10 years, the academics — who would normally earn between £1,300 and £1,700 a month at most — drove up the costs of their work and funnelled the cash to bogus mailbox firms which they set up in Cyprus. They spent the money on a “fabulous lifestyle”, building villas, taking holidays and buying fast cars and fine wine…

Margaret Soltan, November 15, 2010 7:41AM
Posted in: foreign universities

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