Earthquake at Juventus.
The Turin prosecutor has opened an investigation into some capital gains in the club's balance sheets "characterized by fraudulently increased values". There is talk of 282 million euros in three years.
The company's offices were searched by the Guardia di Finanza and from what is learned in the register of suspects, six were entered: the president Andrea Agnelli, the vice president Pavel Nedved, the former head of the sports area Fabio Paratici, now at Tottenham , the current Chief Corporate & Financial Officer Stefano Cerrato, the former Chief Corporate & Financial Officer, Stefano Bertola, and the former financial executive Marco Re.
For the prosecutors it would be Fabio Paratici "the architect of the preventive planning of capital gains", but the board of directors of the Juventus club, and "first and foremost the president Andrea Agnelli", was "well aware" of his conduct.
To conduct the investigations, the investigators also made use of numerous telephone interceptions, from which it appears that in the Bianconeri circles it was clear that the difficulties did not derive only from the health emergency. In a conversation one hears, for example: "Yes, but it wasn't just Covid and we know this well". "They asked for the capital gains", "that at least Fabio (Paratici, ed), you had to make the capital gains and you were making capital gains ", is said in another conversation that ended up in the ears of the investigators.
In a further interception, Juventus is compared to a "flooded car" due to investments beyond budget forecasts and other inaccurate operations, including excessive salaries.
Under the lens of the Prosecutor's Office there would also be economic relations with Cristiano Ronaldo, a former Juventus star, who has spent this season at Manchester United. The player is not under investigation, but the Fiamme Gialle have received from the magistrates the task of looking for "documents and private documents" relating to the contract and the overdue salaries.
(Unioneonline / lf)