Earthquake at Juventus Turin. The board of directors of the famous Italian team, one of the most idolized in the transalpine country, has resigned en bloc. The decision, communicated this Monday after it was uncovered by the Italian newspaper ‘La Gazzetta dello Sport’, has also been taken by the president Andrea Agnelli, vice president of the controversial European Super Leagueand by his second, the former soccer player Pavel Nevded, who served as vice president of the Piedmontese club.
The announcement came after the opening of an investigation for a possible accounting fraud of the Prosecutor’s Office from Turin. In addition to this, the club has received criticism of the Consobthe commission that oversees the Italian stock market system, which called for a review of your budget plan. The latter has meant that the Italian club had to hold its shareholders’ meeting twice in a row.
Investigation on the accounts
The troubles of Juve, as the team is known among the fans, began to be uncovered last year when the Guardia di Finanza (financial police) opened an investigation into the team’s accounts from the previous year. Something that jumped to the press after a series of registrations at the headquarters in Milan and Turin of the club
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The agents were looking in particular 2019 and 2020 balance sheet documents of Juve who, like many other teams, had supposedly agreed to rplayer salary reductions because of the pandemic. Something that allowed the club not to include these operations in its balance sheets, and meant a savings to the enterprise.
With this mechanism, Juve would have even agreed to pay him 19.8 million euros to Cristiano Ronaldowithout this payment being included in the fiscal year of that year, according to documents cited by the Italian press.