Very harsh sanction to Juventus for accounting irregularities in player transfers: They take away 15 points!

Juventus, after the resignations of its president and the entire board of directors, knew that a very complicated 2023 was coming. It is being. After the 5-1 suffered in Naples, for the Turinese another blow has come off the field. After the hearing in the FIGC Court of Appeal to reopen the trial against the Bianconeri over their alleged fictitious capital gains, the decision of the judges has been very hard: 15 points of sanction to the teamtwo and a half years of disqualification for former sports director Paratici, two years for Agnelli and Arrivabene, one year and four months for Cherubini and eight months for Nedved.

The chief prosecutor of Federcalcio, Giuseppe Chiné, after the acquittal in April for lack of “reasonable certainty in the face of serious evidence” in a complicated matter such as the valuation of the players, wanted to reopen the case due to everything that arose from the ‘Prisma’ investigation of the Turin Prosecutor’s Office. In the file of more than 500 pages there are several wiretaps between managers (Agnelli, Elkann, Arrivabene, Cerrato, Gabasio…) talking about capital gains, elements that Chiné considers decisive for a possible violation of article 31 of the code of sports justice (managerial and economic violations). Under the magnifying glass, 22 operations ended, especially barters: for example, the one that took Arthur to Turin (for 72 million euros) and Pjanic to Barça (for 60 million plus 5 in variables: a capital gain of 43.722 million).

For that reason, the prosecutor had asked for a harsh punishment (nine penalty points) and, in the end, the Federal Court of Appeals chose to toughen it. Juve, in its response, continued in the position expressed in the statements of the past months. In December The club reiterated “the correctness of its work” and “the absence of new relevant elements regarding the decision of the Federal Court of Appeal”. The hearing, in addition to the bianconeri, involved Sampdoria, Empoli, Genoa, Parma, Pisa, Pescara, Pro Vercelli and Novara (all of these clubs were acquitted), with 52 managers in total. The decision greatly complicates the season for Juve, which is now eleventh in Serie A, with only 22 pointsalthough the case, in any case, has not been closed definitively. La Vecchia Signora has announced with a statement that it will appeal to the Guarantee College of the Olympic Committee, third and last degree of Italian sports justice, but this will not be his only open front. On March 27, the preliminary hearing for the Prisma investigation of the Turin Prosecutor’s Office will take place, and, before the end of January, the Federcalcio prosecutor could open another sports procedure on the issue of salary deferral in seasons 19/ 20 and 20/21, that of the famous “Ronaldo letter”.