Mess in Juventus: they requested for home arrest for Agnelli
The Turin prosecutor’s workplace has closed its investigation into the Juventus accounts and tonight the Italian media revealed essential information on this regard. As reported, amongst others, by ‘Corriere della Sera’ and ‘La Gazzetta dello Sport’, Prosecutors requested a private precautionary measure (home arrest) for President Andrea Agnelli, a request that the investigating choose rejected on October 12 “resulting from lack of precautionary necessities” and included CEO Maurizio Arrivabene amongst these investigated.
The topic of the investigation is the alleged fictitious capital good points within the buy and sale of soccer gamers, the salaries canceled throughout the first wave of COVID and false billings: it will be accounting fraud and false communications to the market (Juve is listed on the inventory market) . Based on the reconstruction of the prosecutors Marco Gianoglio, Mario Bendoni and Ciro Santoriello after 11 months of labor, between 2018 and 2020 the values of a number of gamers would have been determined “arbitrarily” earlier than “the wants of the stability at the moment”. The identical motive that might have led to the postponement of footballer funds in 2020, who have been theoretically going to surrender 4 months of wage that, lastly, solely remained in a single. Proof of this is able to be “personal and secret” paperwork, present in workplaces outdoors the membership, through which Juve undertook to pay salaries “additionally within the occasion of the participant’s switch.”
Amongst these paperwork would even be Ronaldo’s “secret letter”, a doc that in line with some listeners “shouldn’t exist”. The prosecutors questioned a number of Bianconeri gamers and, with a world plea, additionally requested the presence of Cristiano, who, by way of his authorized paperwork, reported that he wouldn’t have traveled to Turin. The actions on the salaries of the footballers would have had an impact on the stability accredited in October 2021 of 27 million euros.
As summarized by ‘Corriere della Sera’, capital good points and salaries “formally canceled and, as a substitute, solely deferred, would have made up the accounts”. In 2020 “losses of 209 million have been declared as a substitute of 222, with a constructive internet value of 28 million as a substitute of a destructive internet value of 175 million”, and within the earlier yr “losses of 89 million as a substitute of 230 and a internet value of 239 million as a substitute of 47″.
Based on the accusations, then, it will be about manipulation of values and false invoicing for non-existent operations. The 16 investigated (together with Juventus, president Andrea Agnelli, vice chairman Pavel Nedved, former sports activities director Fabio Paratici and CEO Maurizio Arrivabene) will now have 20 days to file a reply or request new interrogations. The trial choose will then determine whether or not to take the case to trial.
