Salaries suspended, who are the thirteen Juventus players involved

Thirteen Juventus players in the current squad who in March 2020 agreed with the club to freeze salaries, with a great sense of responsibility towards the club in a difficult moment due to the lockdown imposed by the first phase of the Covid emergency. They are Chiellini, Bonucci, Szcznesy, De Sciglio, De Ligt, Alex Sandro, Danilo, Cuadrado, Rugani, Rabiot, Pinsoglio, Bernardeschi and Dybala. The latter was heard yesterday for three hours by the Turin Public Prosecutor’s Office, which is now investigating the company’s accounts, hypothesising a false accounting and a series of management and administrative irregularities, as part of the investigation called “Prisma”.

The Argentine striker will not be the only player summoned by the magistrates as a person informed on the facts: the hearings will continue in the coming days. All the players of the first team and the coach of that season, Maurizio Sarri, had joined the initiative.

THE FACTS

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The first file of the investigation was opened last November, under the magnifying glass of sixty-two market operations that would have had an “unhealthy management of capital gains”, according to the prosecution. We are now in the third phase of the investigation, which has led to the searches of some law firms in Milan, Turin and Rome which would have had a supporting role in stipulating the agreement on suspended wages: however, it would not have been a real waiver of four salaries, as reported in the financial report of 30 June 2020, but also the deferral of three out of four months. But all the documentation would not be filed regularly.

No new suspects: the summons currently involve potential witnesses, who could provide useful clues to reconstruct any irregularities. Some wiretaps before and mail correspondence after, between the legal office of the club and some professionals representing the players, would have confirmed the existence of private deeds as a guarantee, the “practice” of keeping confidential documents outside the club’s headquarters and their subsequent destruction.