Andrea Agnelli (photo Lapresse)
Juventus top management investigated, in the sights of sales and budgets
There Finance police searched the offices of Turin And Milan of the Juventus, to find documentation and other useful elements relating to company financial statements of the Juventus club, approved in the years from 2019 to 2021, with reference to both trading of football players, and the regular formation of financial statements. The activities are aimed at ascertaining hypothesis of crime false communications from listed companies and issuing of invoices for non-existent transactions, towards the top management of the club and the directors of the business, financial and sports management areas. Various operations of transfer of players and the services rendered by some agents involved in the related intermediaries. Furthermore, the administrative responsibility profile of a crime is assumed to be borne by the company, provided for in the event that a legal person has benefited from the commission of specific offenses. The ongoing activity has been communicated to the Consob and to Federal prosecutor of the FIGC. The survey, called “Prism“was launched in May 2021 and entrusted to the Turin magistrates Ciro Santoriello, Mario Bendoni and the deputy prosecutor Marco Gianoglio, who made use of wiretapping.
Juventus, Agnelli, Nedved and Paratici under investigation
There are you are under investigation in the’investigation by the prosecutor of Turin that triggered the searches by the financial police in the offices of Juventus of Turin and Milan. According to what is learned – reports Ansa – I am the president Andrea Agnelli, the vice president Pavel Nedved and the former head of the sports area Fabio Paratici (now at Tottenham). Among the suspects, Ansa explains, again according to what we learn, there are also the current Chief Corporate & Financial Officer Stefano Cerrato, the former Chief Corporate & Financial Officer, Stefano Bertola and the former financial manager Marco Re. the hypothesized crime would be that of false accounting.
THE COMMUNICATION OF THE PROSECUTOR
“Since today’s afternoon, on the orders of this Public Prosecutor’s Office, soldiers of the Guardia di Finanza have been carrying out local searches at the Turin and Milan offices of Juventus Football Club Spa – says the press release issued by the Prosecutor just before 11 pm -. The financiers of the Turin Economic-Financial Police Unit, delegated to the investigations, were instructed to find documentation and other useful elements relating to the company financial statements approved in the years from 2019 to 2021, with reference to both the purchase and sale of rights to the sports performance of the players, and the regular formation of financial statements. At present, the activities are aimed at ascertaining the crime of false communications from listed companies and issuing invoices for non-existent transactions, towards the top management and the managers of the business, financial and sports management areas. Under consideration there are various transfer operations of professional players and the services rendered by some agents involved in the relative intermediaries. The profile of administrative responsibility for a crime is also assumed to be borne by the company, provided for if a legal person has benefited from the commission of certain specific offenses. To protect the financial market, the searches were started after the closing of the weekly trading of the Italian Stock Exchange (…). The investigation, called “Prisma”, started in May 2021 and is entrusted to a pool of Magistrates of the Economy Group, made up of Deputy Prosecutors Ciro Santoriello, Mario Bendoni and Deputy Prosecutor Marco Gianoglio, also making use of technical activities of interception of communications “.
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