Malagò, intercepted, against Lotito, Preziosi and the presidents of A: «Criminals, offenders»- Corriere.it

THE Serie A presidents? Real offenders. There League soccer? an organization governed by private law… because otherwise they would arrest them all, because they found them guilty of bribery six years ago with us. Giovanni Malag at the time had not gone lightly. Republic relaunched some excerpts of old interceptions of the president of Coni in the context of the investigation – concluded four and a half years ago with the filing – on the alleged bribe paid for the assignment of television rights, creating damage to the Lega Calcio itself.

For example, June 2, 2020 Malag, on the phone with Andrea Zappia, manager of Sky, he complained because the press reported that the Milan prosecutor’s office investigated him for forgery because, as president-commissioner of the Lega assembly of 19 March 2018, he allegedly falsified the minutes that led to the election by acclamation of Gaetano Miccich. ridiculous Zappia tells him, and he …these are real criminals.

The phone calls transcribed by the Guardia di Finanza are those with Massimo Bochicchio, the broker who defrauded half of Italy from sport, who died in a car accident on the eve of his trial this summer. And those with television and sports executives with whom Malag spoke, in fact, of the assignment of rights.

The transcripts also read Malag’s judgment of Enrico Preciousformer president of Genoa: Un real offender. And on that of Lazio, Claudio Lotito, the boss. And our friends, Juventus and Roma, are as guilty as he is. Because in the end or for one reason or another, they gave up fighting or indulged him and became accomplices in his adventures. The reply of the former president of Genoa was not long in coming. The fact that you consider me a offender surprises me – says Preziosi – because even months ago we met and embraced. It seems to me that he has to defend himself against an accusation of corruption, perhaps the offender himself. Interceptions that ended up in the proceedings of an investigation by the Milan prosecutor’s office on television rights, Preziosi adds: He stands as a judge of what we are, given that he brings up the presidents of Serie A and also Lotito. I can’t understand how he can do this to a human being, we met again many times and we always hugged, maybe he was hugging a criminal ….