Serie A: The key doc of 20 million euros that commits Juventus and Cristiano Ronaldo

Has instances a yr, on the finish of November 2021the Flip Prosecutor introduced the opening of an investigation in opposition to Juventus for attainable accounting fraud. The investigated (and already charged) on this attainable plot are the president Andrea Agnellithe vp pavel nedved, former sports activities director fabio paratici -who is not within the club- and three extra administrators of the Italian entity. In actual fact, yesterday a decide prevented his arrests.

The authorities collected info from the final three balances as a result of there are indications of crime for “false communications from listed firms and issuance of invoices for non-existent operations”. Months later, in response to the accusation of the FIGC Prosecutor’s Workplace and paperwork leaked by ‘Calcio e Finanza’ in Italy, some alleged fictitious capital positive aspects for 60.3 million. That’s, the market values ​​of gamers had been inflated to promote them at a better worth. The Prosecutor requested for fines, however not the descent of the membership.

Properly, yesterday the crimes for which Agnelli, Nedved and Paratici, amongst others, have been charged had been made public ( false company communication, false communication directed on the market, obstruction to the train of the powers of public surveillance, manipulation and use of invoices for non-existent operations), and right now the Gazzetta dello Sport studies that the researchers additionally discovered a secret doc by which Cristiano Ronaldo might be concerned.

In mentioned doc, signed by Juventus and Cristiano Ronaldo himself, the membership guarantees to pay its former striker a complete of 20 million euros regardless of saying wage changes throughout the peak of the COVID-19 pandemic. Y even when he ended up leaving the membership within the following seasons. A disaster that paralyzed the complete world and put many soccer golf equipment in a troublesome state of affairs, which needed to perform varied cutouts in order that the influence of the stoppage of competitions was as painless as attainable.

Funds in ‘B’ to extra gamers?

The investigation, in response to the Italian newspaper, is now centered on alleged non-public paperwork that the membership would have signed with the members of the primary staff throughout the yr 2020thus making an attempt to show that the Juventus gamers didn’t really hand over 4 months’ wages throughout the COVID-19 lockdown since March 2020, however moderately obtained funds at ‘B’ for 3 months after signing these secret agreements.

The reference to a “doc that theoretically shouldn’t have existed” arose from the wiretaps carried out on Juventus managers in December final yr and, in response to Each daythe researchers now they’ll have discovered this doc signed by Ronaldo and the membership. A fee agreed by the 2 events that, as anticipated, doesn’t seem registered in Juventus’ monetary accounts in that yr. The Turin Prosecutor would have requested Cristiano about his place on the matter after the knowledge dropped at mild, however The Portuguese is not going to converse in the meanwhile until he’s formally summoned to trial.

The Prosecutor already took without any consideration in March that throughout the 4 months of the beginning of the pandemic, Juventus postponed funds and there was speak of the apply of save playing cards exterior the headquarters that may disappear as soon as the assure operate has expired. It was additionally believed that the papers on Cristiano Ronaldo and his funds, which allowed Juve to document a value discount within the monetary years 2019-20 and 2020-21, had been destroyed.

Now plainly it has not been so and that there’s proof that such a doc existedso we should be attentive within the coming weeks to the occasions of an investigation that’s nonetheless ongoing and that retains one of many greats of Serie A on excessive alert.