Penalty request to Juventus! Ranking may change

It has been reported that the Sports Prosecutor of the Italian Football Federation (FIGC) requested the deduction of 11 points for Juventus from the First Football League (Serie A) teams, whose name was involved in the financial corruption investigation.

Juventus, whose processes continue both in the judicial and sports spheres for being involved in economic irregularities, has received a new request for a sanction from the sports courts.

The FIGC Sports Prosecutor’s Office met again today after the FIGC canceled the 15-point deduction sanction imposed on Juventus by the Arbitration Board of the Italian National Olympic Committee (CONI) over the objection of the black and white club and returned the file to the federation for reconsideration.

According to news from the Italian agency ANSA, the FIGC sports prosecutor, Giuseppe Chine, demanded that Juventus be sanctioned with 11 points, this time for irregularities in financial statements such as improper gains in footballer transfers and salaries, incompleteness or misrepresentations.

Prosecutor Chine also demanded an 8-month deprivation of rights for former Vice President Pavel Nedved and 6 executives, whose sentences were overturned.

If the 11-point elimination penalty requested by the sports prosecutor is accepted by the federation’s legal committees, Juventus, which sits second with 69 points in Serie A, will drop back to eighth with 58 points.

Meanwhile, after the FIGC sports prosecutor requested an 11-point removal penalty, Juventus shares on the Milan Stock Exchange lost 4.2 percent.

PRISM INVESTIGATION

The club’s offices in Turin, Milan and Rome were raided between November 2021 and March 2022, within the framework of the investigation called “Prisma”, which was launched by the Turin Attorney General’s Office in May 2021 and examined the financial accounts of the Juventus for the period 2019-2020 and 2020-2021.

The directors of the black and white club and the footballers Paulo Dybala, Alex Sandro and Federico Bernardeschi also testified before the Prosecutor’s Office to be consulted in the framework of the investigation.

It was reported in the media that prosecutors conducting the investigation detected financial irregularities such as improper gains, incomplete or false statements in the club’s financial accounts for the 2019-2021 period, especially in footballer transfers and salaries.

After the Attorney General’s investigation was completed in October 2022, club president Andrea Agnelli and his management resigned on November 28, 2022 to protect the club’s interests.

ILLEGAL CAPITAL GAINS…

UEFA also decided to launch an investigation against Juventus on December 1, 2022 for possible violations of financial fair play and club licensing rules.

Due to the deepening of the investigation by the Turin Prosecutor’s Office, the Italian Football Federation (FIGC) restarted its investigation, which was closed in May 2022, for capital gains and unfair transfer values, which was previously closed in May 2022. 2022, for Juventus and 8 clubs on December 22, 2022, due to new information emerging.

15 POINTS REMOVE CANCELED PENALTY

As a result of the investigation, the FIGC sports judge acquitted 8 clubs on January 20 and sentenced Juventus to 15 points. Former Juventus sporting director Fabio Paratici was sentenced to 30 months, former president Andrea Agnelli to 24 months, former technical director Maurizio Arrivabene to 24 months, Pavel Nedved to 8 months of suspension.

Discussing Juventus’ objection to this sanction, the Italian National Olympic Committee (CONI) Arbitration Board canceled the 15-point deduction and disenfranchisement, and sent Pavel Nedved and some of his coaches back to the FIGC for reconsider their sanction decisions on April 20. (AA)