D’Onofrio case, FIGC prosecutors refer Trentalange – Calcio

The prosecutor’s office of the football federation has deferred Alfredo Trentalangeformer president of theHaguefor the case D’Onofrio, the head of the arbitral prosecution arrested for an international drug trafficking. The office headed by Giuseppe Chiné has rejected the request for a plea deal made by Trentalange who resigned from the presidency in The Hague last December 18th.

At the basis of the referral to the national federal court – confirms the FIGC in a note – a series of indictments regarding the affair concerning the former national prosecutor of the AIA. In particular, according to the FIGC prosecutor, Trentalange “failed to take any initiative, even the most minimal, to ascertain the real professional and moral requirements of Mr. Rosario D’Onofrio, with whom Trentalange had a long-established personal relationship date, before the proposal, made by Trentalange himself, and consequent appointment by the AIA National Committee (in March 2021), to AIA Arbitration Prosecutor, while the appointed person was held under house arrest, because he was convicted of very serious crimes concerning the detention of drugs”;

“for having contacted by telephone the vice president of the national disciplinary commission, lawyer Andrea Sandroni, who had found D’Onofrio’s negligence and professional inadequacy as a member of the aforementioned commission, asking him not to take new initiatives against Rosario D’Onofrio, and so doing – to protect D’Onofrio, – interfered with the activity, prerogatives, autonomy and independence of a sports justice body”; “for having failed to take any initiative, even the most minimal, to check the possession of the professional and moral requisites necessary for the attribution to Mr. Rosario D’Onofrio of important honors and prizes (meritorious referee and the Lo Bello Concept award) , while D’Onofrio was held under house arrest as he was convicted of very serious crimes concerning the possession of drugs”;

Referees, the president of Aia Trentalange has resigned

18 December 2022

“for having failed to take every and most appropriate initiative, even the most minimal, aimed at ascertaining and consequently intervening so that Mr. Rosario D’Onofrio guarantees a diligent demeanor and a regular presence at the Office, as required by his role as AIA National Prosecutor, also taking into account the significant amount of work (1700 files per year) pending at the aforementioned Office”;

“for failing to adopt organizational models suitable for ensuring a minimum standard of transparency and administrative correctness, aimed at carrying out a control activity at the AIA on the reimbursement of expenses advanced by subjects belonging to the AIA Sports Justice Bodies, behavior that facilitated the illegal activity of Rosario D’Onofrio, AIA National Prosecutor, who – for the exercise of his functions from March 2021 to August 2022 – presented requests for reimbursement of significant unverified expenses to the FIGC and the AIA itself”; “for having communicated and distributed during the AIA National Committee meeting in Caltanissetta on 12 November 2022 a document (news then reported by the national press) apparently bearing the resignation from the AIA of Rosario D’Onofrio, without having previously carried out the slightest finalized verification to ascertain the reliability and truthfulness of the document and its content despite the fact that there were multiple circumstances that testified to the untruthfulness of the document itself”; finally, “for having, during the Federal Council meeting of November 15, 2022, in which the ‘D’Onofrio’ case was discussed, made untruthful statements, regarding the acquisition of a curriculum vitae of Rosario D’Onofrio before his appointment as AIA Attorney, to the educational and professional qualifications held by the latter and to the alleged, but non-existent, self-certifications made by the latter”.