A Juventus was punished with the loss of 10 points in the Italian Championship, after revising the initial 15-point penalty for accounting fraud. With this new decision by the Italian sporting justice, the team from Turin drops from second to seventh position in Serie A, five points behind Milan, which closes the classification zone of the Champions League.
Juvetus had been punished on January 20 with the withdrawal of 15 points for having artificially reduced its losses by overbilling the sale of some players between 2018 and 2021.
In April, the club was unable to obtain the pure and simple annulment of the sanction, but it convinced the judges of the Collegio de Garantia of the Italian Olympic Committee (Coni), the highest instance of sporting justice in Italy, to send the case back to the court of appeal of the Italian Football Federation, for it to be re-examined.
The College confirmed “a voluntary and repeated alteration of the accounting documents” by Juventus, although it removed the punishment until clarification on the involvement of some former club managers, such as former vice-president Pavel Nedved, who in the latter hearing was acquitted.
But the soap opera is not over yet, as Juventus can still appeal the sentence again, whose final decision may come only after the end of the current season, on June 4.
Juventus Football Club takes note of what was decided a little while ago by the FIGC Court of Appeal and reserves the right to read the reasons to evaluate a possible appeal to the Guarantee Board at CONI. What was established by the fifth degree of judgment in this matter, which began…
— JuventusFC (@juventusfc) May 22, 2023
Source: Gazetaesportiva
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