Judgment Juventus, the penalty and the next trials: questions and answers – Corriere.it

Why did the Federal Court revoke Juve’s acquittal?

Article 63 of the sports justice code allows the revocation as the factual framework has radically changed. It is the papers of the Prisma investigation that have changed the landscape. The new fact is the absence of any method of evaluating the exchange operations and, instead, the presence of a fraudulent system from the outset that the Federal Court had not been able to know about and in the light of which the decision must be different from the one revoked.

Why was the 15-point penalty tightened compared to the -9 requested by the Public Prosecutor’s Office?

In addition to emphasizing the awareness of a situation that the Juventus managers define as bad and even compared to Calciopoli, the explanations explain: Taking into account the precedents that have involved accounting alterations that lasted for several financial years or of significant size and intensity (which in the past led to penalties of fluctuating value but, in some cases, significant), it is deemed necessary to re-determine the penalty with respect to the requests of the Public Prosecutor. Which must be proportionate to the alteration of the sporting result.

In their defense, Juventus recalls that they were acquitted in the spring for the lack of a law that regulates capital gains and establishes certain parameters for the evaluation of players. And therefore how is it possible to be convicted if the norm does not exist?

The same Court in the motivations recognizes that such a legislative intervention is extremely urgent. The government, through Sport Minister Abodi and Economy Minister Giorgetti, has clarified that it will intervene with an ad hoc law. But having affirmed this principle does not legalize any behavior, and does not make acceptable the intention of not using any method other than an artificial search for capital gains. Otherwise, any capital gain would be made legitimate and an evaluation anarchy would be introduced which no system can tolerate.

What is Juve’s next move?

The club has 30 days to appeal to the Board of Guarantee which, however, has the power to decide only on issues of legitimacy and not on the merits.

Are there other sports trials awaiting the Bianconeri?

Prosecutor Chin asked for a 40-day extension for the investigation into the salary maneuvers. He also continues the preliminary investigation phase for the capital gains bis, relating to exchanges with friendly companies. The club will ask that the sanctions be unified and therefore mitigated through the institution of continuation (for which the sanction is increased for the most serious fact instead of adding up all the sanctions).