everyone knew. The investigation extends to clubs in business with the Bianconeri (starting from Atalanta and Genoa) – Corriere.it

There is a firm point in the investigation into Juventus’ accounts, at least according to the thesis of the investigators, coordinated by the adjunct Marco Gianoglio and the prosecutors Mario Bendoni and Ciro Santoriello: everyone knew everything, from the president Andrea Agnelli to the managers. A conviction born sifting through documents discovered in searches, analyzing emails, listening to phone calls. After all, in a chat intercepted by the soldiers of the economic and financial police unit of Turin, the then head of the technical area summarized in a joke: Everyone was happy when Paratici came and brought capital gains. A lawful way that Juve ended up abusing, whether in a lawful way or not a possible trial will establish.

Certainly, a modus operandi used by other clubs, so much so that the Turin prosecutors are evaluating whether and which documents to transmit to colleagues in other cities. Soon they will formulate the request for indictment for the top management of the Juventus club – while for some former mayors and auditors there is the hypothesis of a request for dismissal – but other prosecutors could then in turn start investigations: the impression that is weighing up the existence of crimes, but that almost certainly violations of the sports justice code are configurable. At stake are some companies that, over the years under investigation, have done business with Juve, starting with Atalanta and Genoa. In the meantime, yesterday with a long note, the Juventus club underlined its position: The Prosecutor’s disputes do not appear to be founded and, moreover, neither in terms of assumptions nor in terms of conclusions, aligned with the findings contained in the Consob resolution of 19 October 2022.

That is: The Public Prosecutor’s Office – claims Juve – affirms the artificiality of capital gains and the fictitiousness of salary waivers, while Consob disputes a considerably lower value of capital gainsmoreover without mention of false accounting, and does not dispute the legal effectiveness of the salary waivers, n, with specific regard to the 2020/2021 “salary maneuver”, the legally non-binding nature of the supplementary documents under negotiation in April /May 2021. The company also intervenes on any sporting proceedings: Juventus trusts that, precisely because of the alleged absence of any alteration to the disputed financial statements, the conclusions of the sporting authorities (which have already expressed themselves, with regard to the issue of capital gains, in a favorable sense to the black and whites) will not change: in the absence of any alteration accountant, any sporting sanction would be completely unfounded. But according to the thesis of the prosecutors, from the content of some emails on residual debts with other clubs and agents and the deferred monthly payments to the players, the club could have off-balance sheet debts of around €70m.