Fifteen penalty points! Juventus Turin was heavily sanctioned, Friday, January 20, by the Italian sports justice, which accuses it of having recorded in its accounts artificially overvalued capital gains during player transfers.
His former boss, Andrea Agnelli, who officially released the reins of the club this week, was also sanctioned with a two-year suspension, along with other ex-managers of the most successful team in Italian football (thirty- six league titles), according to the evening press release by the Italian Football Federation.
Juve had been acquitted with ten other clubs in this case in the spring of 2022, but the federation’s court of appeal accepted the request of the federal prosecutor to reopen the case, only for the Turin club, in view of the elements transmitted by justice Italian, who is also investigating the accounts of the “Old Lady”.
By inflicting on Juve this penalty of fifteen points, “to be served in the current season” according to the terms of this press release, the proceedings went beyond the requisitions of the prosecutor, who had requested a withdrawal of nine points.
From the 3e at the 10e Italian championship place
The bianconero club clarified to wait “publishing motivations” of the decision but has “pre-announced already” that he would appeal to the arbitration board of the Italian Olympic Committee (CONI), in a press release on his site.
Here he is now pushed back from third place (with 37 points) to tenth (with 22 points) in Serie A. This sanction as it stands greatly compromises his chances of finishing in the top four of Serie A and therefore of competing. next season the lucrative Champions League.
The Court of Appeal also imposed long suspensions on the club’s former managers: two and a half years against former sporting director Fabio Paratici, today at Tottenham, and two years for ex-president Andrea Agnelli. Pavel Nedved, who was vice-president, is suspended for eight months. These sanctions are stronger than the requisitions of the federal prosecutor Giuseppe China.
If other clubs had been prosecuted originally, Juventus has always been on the front line in this case: it was accused of having notably overvalued the selling prices of certain players, in the context of cross-selling with other clubs, to record artificially inflated capital gains in its accounts.
Losses above 200 million euros
Juve is also the subject of a judicial investigation into possible accounting fraud in order to limit its losses in the balance sheets presented to investors, between 2018 and 2021. The Turin prosecutor’s office requested in early December the referral to trial of Andrea Agnelli and eleven other ex-leaders. This request must be examined at the end of March.
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Mr. Agnelli announced his resignation at the end of November, under judicial pressure. His successor to the presidency, Gianluca Ferrero, was officially inducted on Wednesday.
The new management will have the task of redressing the sporting situation of the “Old Lady”, without a title last season for the first time in eleven years, but above all her worrying financial situation: the club has recorded losses of more than 200 million euros. euros for the past two seasons and is also closely watched by UEFA.
Dark hours that plunge the club into its worst turbulence since the “Calciopoli” scandal (influence on the referees) which had led to his administrative relegation to the second division and the loss on green carpet of the titles of 2005 and 2006.