Gdf at Juventus headquarters, Agnelli, Nedved, Paratici under investigation

(ANSA) - TURIN, NOV 26 - Searches by the financial police are underway in premises belonging to Juventus in Turin and Milan.

The Fiamme Gialle are recovering documents relating to the purchase and sale of rights to sports performance and the formation of financial statements for the years 2019-21.

    According to what is learned, there are six suspects in the investigation.

They are the president Andrea Agnelli, the vice president Pavel Nedved and the former head of the sports area Fabio Paratici.

Among the suspects, also three financial executives, two of whom no longer work for the Juventus club.

    The investigation, called "Prisma", started in May 2021 and is entrusted to a pool of magistrates of the Gruppodell'Economia, composed of the deputy prosecutors CiroSantoriello, Mario Bendoni and the assistant prosecutor MarcoGianoglio. Under the magnifying glass of the investigators, the company budgets approved from 2019 to 2021, with reference both to the buying and selling of rights to the players' sports performances, and to the regular formation of financial statements.

    "At present, the activities are aimed at ascertaining the hypothesis of the crime of false communications from listed companies and issuing invoices for non-existent transactions, against the top management and the directors of the business, financial and sports management areas", explains the Turin prosecutor inuna Note. "Various transfer operations of professional players and the services rendered by some agents involved in the relative intermediaries are being examined." specific offenses ".

    The searches were carried out with the stock market closed, to protect the financial market, since Juventus is a listed company.

The activities in progress were communicated to Consob and to the Federal Prosecutor established by the Italian Football Federation (FIGC).

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