The prosecution assumes that the 4 months of the beginning of the pandemic were only postponed by Juventus and there is talk of the practice of keeping cards outside the headquarters that will disappear once the guarantee function is exhausted. And the card never found on CR7 comes to mind
New searches and new accusations of false accounting for Juventus, increasingly in the crosshairs of the Turin prosecutor’s office. This time under the lens there are 4 monthly payments not collected by the players during the first wave of Covid. According to the accusation, Juventus would have agreed with the players the reductions in salaries and at the same time also the additions, but inserting the latter only in the budget of the following year. Yesterday the Guardia di Finanza, on the orders of the magistrates Ciro Sartoriello and Mario Bendoni and the adjunct Marco Gianoglio, carried out new searches as part of the “Prisma” investigation, which had led to the registration in the register of suspects Andrea Agnelli, Pavel Nedved, Fabio Pratici and three current and former finance managers plus the lawyer Cesare Gabasio. The charge is of issuing invoices for non-existent transactions and false communications.
The salary maneuver
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The new line concerns the agreement for the reduction of salaries that Juventus reached in March 2020, with the championship stopped due to the pandemic: the agreement provided for the cut of 4 months (from March to June) with a positive effect of 90 million. on the 2019-2O budget. According to the reconstruction of the prosecutors of those 90 million over 60 were subsequently returned to the players through private agreements. From the comparison work between the documents seized at Juventus headquarters and the contracts deposited in the League, it emerged “the existence of multiple private deeds – reads the search decree – variously denominated included in the two salary maneuvers for the financial years 2019 / 2020 2020/21 and not filed with the competent bodies “. Everything stems from investigative investigations related to the transfers of the players, which have brought to light the anomalies. The names of the professionals emerged from Gabasio’s correspondence and notes. The searches were carried out in Turin, Milan and Rome, in various law firms to which the players turned for private contracts, including the headquarters of the World Soccer Agency of Alessandro Lucci, attorney of Cuadrado, Bonucci and Kulusevski.
CR7 and the destroyed card
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According to the investigators, Juve would have implemented two strategies: with the agreement of March 2020 there would not have been a waiver of 4 months (as per the annual financial report of 30 June 2020) but a deferral of 3 of the 4 installments, regardless of the resumption of sporting activity, with “the simultaneous occurrence of an unconditional debt”. For the following season there would be wage reduction agreements (filed with the Lega), integration agreements (partially filed) and separate supplementary documents (never filed). Some of these supplementary writings were “to guarantee payment of the integrations even in the event of a player’s transfer”. The decree also speaks of the practice of keeping confidential documents outside the Juve headquarters destined for destruction once the guarantee function is exhausted. And here comes to mind the famous paper concerning Cristiano Ronaldo of which the prosecutors found traces in the interceptions but has never been found and that the magistrates think it has been destroyed. These documents are considered “body of crime” and, in addition to the fictitious capital gains, they are considered elements in support of further false accounting practices, “which allowed Juve to record a cost reduction in the 2019-20 and 2020-21 financial statements, omitting the debt position “. The prosecutor also asked Juve for other documents, including the players’ contracts.
March 24 – 08:36
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