{"id":80687,"date":"2023-10-31T09:18:16","date_gmt":"2023-10-31T09:18:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/posterboyedit.com\/?p=80687"},"modified":"2023-10-31T09:18:16","modified_gmt":"2023-10-31T09:18:16","slug":"cop-who-clocked-on-in-his-y-fronts-wins-his-job-back-and-huge-lump-sum","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/posterboyedit.com\/world-news\/cop-who-clocked-on-in-his-y-fronts-wins-his-job-back-and-huge-lump-sum\/","title":{"rendered":"Cop who clocked on in his Y-fronts wins his job back and huge lump sum"},"content":{"rendered":"
A sacked Italian policeman who became an international laughing stock for clocking in to work in his Y-fronts has won his job back – and a huge lump sum in back pay.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Alberto Muraglia, 61, from Sanremo, became embroiled in a corruption enquiry in 2015 after being pictured stamping his time card wearing just his underpants and a T-shirt.\u00a0<\/p>\n
The portly officer was captured on CCTV in 2014 punching the card in his council accommodation block where he lived with his family near his place of work.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n After clocking on, he then went back upstairs to his apartment to get dressed into his uniform before heading back to the office for his shift.<\/p>\n As a result of the clip captured on police security cameras, Muraglia was charged with defrauding the state of public funds – and opened himself to years of public ridicule.\u00a0<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Alberto Muraglia\u00a0was pictured stamping his time card\u00a0in his council accommodation block where he lived with his family near his place of work<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Alberto Muraglia was acquitted of defrauding the state of public funds by an Italian court<\/p>\n When images taken from the CCTV footage made the headlines the police officer became a national example of the nation’s fight against workers in council offices and government departments who are often absent.\u00a0<\/p>\n The Sanremo inquiry found that one town hall worker was clocking on and then spending the day kayaking while others were seen shopping or with friends.<\/p>\n When Muraglia’s role was terminated, a court acquitted him in 2020 of the charge of defrauding the state of public funds.\u00a0<\/p>\n It ruled that getting dressed for work is part of an employee’s official duties.<\/p>\n The judge ruled that Muraglia was within his rights to clock in then go home to get dressed.\u00a0<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Muraglia was caught on police CCTV clocking in, then going back upstairs to his apartment to get dressed into his uniform before heading back to the office for his shift<\/p>\n At the time, Muraglia deemed that the verdict was vindication after being ridiculed by the Italian press.<\/p>\n However, the town of Sanremo refused to allow him to return to the position.\u00a0<\/p>\n Muraglia returned to court where he won his case again this week.<\/p>\n A judge ruled that he should be re-employed and receive back pay of \u20ac250,000, dating back to when his role finished, earnings during the years in between from a business he set up.<\/p>\n ‘It’s the end of a nightmare,’ Muraglia said. ‘These have been years of suffering for me in which I have been splashed across front pages around the world in my underpants.’\u00a0<\/p>\n He noted, though, that he would be wearing his clothes to clock in.<\/p>\n