Federation prosecutor requests 9-point penalty for Juventus
ROME — The Italian soccer federation prosecutor requested a nine-point penalty for Juventus on Friday for alleged false accounting involving the Bianconeri — a punishment that might remove the membership’s probabilities of taking part in in Europe subsequent season.
Prosecutor Giuseppe Chiné made the request throughout a listening to earlier than the federation’s appeals court docket.
Chiné additionally requested a 16-month ban for former Juventus president Andrea Agnelli and equally lengthy bans for different members of Juve’s former board, which resigned en masse in November following an investigation by Turin public prosecutors into alleged false bookkeeping.
The transfer comes 17 years after the “Calciopoli” refereeing scandal that noticed Juventus, a report 36-time Italian champion, demoted to Serie B and stripped of two Serie A titles.
Juventus has denied wrongdoing and was initially cleared by the sports activities court docket in April. But an attraction was made after the federation collected papers from the Turin prosecutors.
Fines have been requested for eight different golf equipment: Sampdoria, Pro Vercelli, Genoa, Parma, Pisa, Empoli, Pescara and Novara.
Juventus is presently third in Serie A and 10 factors behind Italian league chief Napoli. A nine-point penalty would drop the Bianconeri to eighth place.
Juventus was already eradicated from the Champions League in a horrible begin to this season, which additionally noticed it win solely two of its opening 9 Serie A matches. But the membership has bounced again to climb into the highest 4.
Juventus might face additional penalties from UEFA, which additionally opened an inquiry into the membership’s funds after the Turin prosecutor’s workplace requested indictments for Agnelli and 10 different former board members in addition to the membership itself.
At the beginning of the pandemic, Juventus mentioned 23 gamers agreed to cut back their wage for 4 months to assist the membership by way of the disaster. But prosecutors declare the gamers gave up just one month’s wage.
Turin prosecutors have additionally apparently found extra alleged secret funds to former participant Cristiano Ronaldo that weren’t reported by Juventus.
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