Massimo Ferrero was arrested by members of the Guardia de Finanza and has been transferred to the San Vittore prison.
The president of the Italian football club Sampdoria, Massimo Ferrero, has been arrested this Monday for corporate crimes and bankruptcy, in an investigation involving five other people, Italian media reported.
Ferrero, 70 years old and transferred to the San Vittore prison, He was arrested by members of the Guardia de Finanza (financial police) by order of the Paola Prosecutor’s Office (Calabria, southern Italy), who is in charge of the investigation.
After being arrested, Massimo Ferrero communicated his “willingness to resign immediately” of his position to prevent his team from being “harmed for free”.
Ferrero, owner of Sampdoria since 2014, decided to resign “to better protect the interests of the other activities in which he works and, in particular, isolate all kinds of speculation about a possible link “with the clubread a statement published by the Genoese entity.
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The crimes of which Ferrero is accused is due to his activity in the world of cinema and not as president of Sampdoria, so the club will not be affected by the situation.
“With much surprise we learned of the action of a precautionary measure of detention against Massimo Ferrero, ordered by the Public Prosecutor’s Office of the Republic of Paola (Calabria, south) for issues related to events of many years ago and for which the The need for precautionary measures due to the evident lack of news ”, reads the Sampdoria statement.
“It should be noted that these issues, in any case, are not linked to the management and presidency of Sampdoria, but to Ferrero’s Roman activities related to the world of cinema,” he adds.
The businessman expressed his willingness to be at the “immediate and complete disposal” of the investigators, who will be contacted by his lawyers, Luca Ponti and Giuseppina Tenga.
Five other people are also involved in the investigation, including his daughter, Vanessa Ferrero, and his son-in-law, for whom house arrests have been ordered for the time being. (D)
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