The investigation by the Turin Public Prosecutor’s Office opens a trend and uncovers interesting elements for sports justice: the Football Federation has asked for the papers
Four months of wiretapping, from May to August of this year, were enough for the Turin prosecutor to investigate the top management of Juventus, hypothesising the crimes of falso in the financial statements and false invoicing through the method of “fictitious” capital gains panacea for accounts – and coffers – in distress. But they were also an opportunity to photograph a “sick” football system in which many things do not work (at best) and in the most realistic form of possible sporting offenses, as emerged from several sources. Numerous, we learn from circles of the Prosecutor’s Office. Which are not criminally relevant, but which affect the whole world of football and not just the Juventus club, whose criminal proceedings will follow its course. Translation? The world of football is shaking.
It seems the premise of a new Calciopoli which can upset the fragile balance of Serie A struggling for some time with financial statements in the red, creative economy to limit operating losses, flight of champions, poor competitiveness (with repercussions also on the turnover of television rights) compared to some other European leagues and which he will have to face in terms of sports justice who knows what new emergencies. Nobody is unbalanced on what are the possible offenses. Everything is armored in the thousands of pages of information that the tax police unit of the Guardia di Finanza has filed with the three magistrates in charge of the investigation: the substitutes Ciro Santoriello and Mario Bendoni and the deputy prosecutor Marco Gianoglio. And that they are classified acts because we are still in the preliminary investigation phase. But at the end of these – which are expected to close quickly – they will also be sent to the FIGC for the appropriate assessments.
There has been a communication axis between Rome and Turin for some time. The Savoy Public Prosecutor informed the leaders of sports justice before starting the searches at the Juventus headquarters last Friday. The Federal Prosecutor has asked for the papers produced as part of the Prisma investigation, but at the moment the only extensible document has been transmitted: the 12-page search decree notified to Juve president Andrea Agnelli, deputy Pavel Nedved, to the former sporting director Fabio Paratici and three other club managers.
And there are comments on what is happening in Turin at the Palagiustizia. FIGC president Gabriele Gravina yesterday explained how Rome expects «the results of the investigations underway. For more than a year now we have been paying attention to this operating mode, which also worried UEFA. There are objective difficulties in combining the interest of sport with some criteria of a civil nature ». Also awaiting the Undersecretary for Sport, Valentina Vezzali: “Let’s see what will happen at the end of the investigation.”
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