It has been reported that the Italian Football Federation (FIGC) Sports Prosecutor’s Office requested 11 points deduction for Juventus from the First Football League (Serie A) teams, whose name was involved in the financial corruption investigation.
Juventus, whose processes are continuing in both the judicial and sports courts on the grounds that he was involved in financial irregularities, has received a new penalty request from the sports judiciary.
The FIGC Sports Prosecutor’s Office reconvened today after FIGC canceled the 15-point deduction penalty given to Juventus by the Italian National Olympic Committee (CONI) Arbitration Board upon the objection of the black-and-white club and sent the file back to the federation for reconsideration.
According to the news of the Italian ANSA agency, FIGC Sports Prosecutor Giuseppe Chine demanded that Juventus be penalized with 11 points, this time due to irregularities in the financial statements such as unfair gains in football player transfers and salaries, incomplete or misrepresentation.
Prosecutor Chine also demanded an 8-month deprivation of rights for former vice president Pavel Nedved and 6 executives, whose sentences were revoked.
If the 11-point deletion penalty requested by the sports prosecutor is accepted by the federation’s legal committees, Juventus, which is in the 2nd place with 69 points in Serie A, will regress to the 8th place with 58 points.
Meanwhile, after the FIGC Sports Prosecutor requested an 11-point deletion penalty, Juventus’ shares on the Milan Stock Exchange reportedly lost 4.2 percent.
THE “PRISMA” INVESTIGATION AGAINST JUVENTUS
The club’s offices in Turin, Milan and Rome were searched between November 2021 and March 2022, within the framework of the investigation called “Prisma”, which was started by the Turin Chief Public Prosecutor’s Office in May 2021 and examined the financial accounts of Juventus for the period 2019-2020 and 2020-2021.
Managers of the black-and-white club and football players Paulo Dybala, Alex Sandro and Federico Bernardeschi also testified by the prosecutor’s office to be consulted within the framework of the investigation.
It was reported in the media that the prosecutors conducting the investigation detected financial irregularities such as unjust gains, incomplete or false statements in the financial accounts of the club for the 2019-2021 period, especially in football player transfers and salaries.
After the Attorney General’s investigation completed in October 2022, the club president Andrea Agnelli and his management resigned on 28 November 2022 to protect the club’s interests.
UEFA also decided to launch an investigation against Juventus on 1 December 2022 for possible violations of financial fair-play and club license rules.
Due to the deepening of the investigation of the Turin Public Prosecutor’s Office, the Italian Football Federation (FIGC) restarted its investigation, which was closed in May 2022, for unfair capital gains and transfer values, which was previously closed in May 2022, for Juventus and 8 clubs on 22 December 2022, on the grounds that new information emerged. .
As a result of the investigation, the FIGC Sports Judge cleared 8 clubs on 20 January and sentenced Juventus to 15 points deduction. Former Juventus sporting director Fabio Paratici was sentenced to 30 months, ex-president Andrea Agnelli 24 months, ex-manager Maurizio Arrivabene 24 months, Pavel Nedved 8 months suspended.
Discussing Juventus’ objection to this penalty, the Italian National Olympic Committee (CONI) Arbitration Board canceled the 15-point deduction and the deprivation of rights, and sent Pavel Nedved and some of his managers back to the FIGC to reconsider their penalty decisions on 20 April.