From Cristiano Ronaldo to Higuain there are about 25 Juventus players or former footballers - none of whom are under investigation - the Turin prosecutor intends to work on their relations with the Juventus club as part of the investigation into the club's accounts.
The list also includes the coach Sarri.
This is derived from the information provided by the prosecutors to the Guardia di Finanza at the time of the searches two days ago.
Part of the task was to search for any files present on computers and in the Clouds for files with keywords related to the names of the players.
Juventus player Paulo Dybala in the prosecutor's office, in Turin, to be heard as a person informed of the facts in relation to the investigation into the accounts of the Juventus club.
Dybala is the first player to be heard by the owners of the 'Prisma' investigation, prosecutors Ciro Sartoriello, Mario Bendoni and Marco Gianoglio.
Juventus president Andrea Agnelli, vice president Pavel Nedved and five other executives and former managers have been registered in the register of suspects since last November for issues related to capital gains on the sale of players.
The magistrates yesterday launched a new front of investigations on the students of the players, which led the financial police to carry out searches in Turin, Milan and Rome.
In the sights of the investigators, in particular, the
Juventus's "salary maneuver" enters the crosshairs of the Turin prosecutor's office.
The financial police, on the advice of the prosecutors, carried out a series of searches in the Piedmontese capital, in Milan and in Rome.
This is a development of the survey on capital gains - 282 million euros in three years - which last winter had led to the registration of the top managers of the Juventus club in the register of suspects.
Papers relating to the budgets for the 2019-20 and 2020-21 seasons have been taken.
This time the light was turned on the accounting expedient which, according to what was leaked in the press at the time, had been taken to avert the effects of the economic crisis that had hit the world of football due to the pandemic: the deferral to
subsequent year of wages to players for four months.
The magistrates want to understand if the procedure followed was correct from an accounting point of view.
Their idea is that reductions and additions have been agreed upon at the same time.
Then, however, the two items would be arranged in two different budgets: in the first the reductions were inserted, with the consequent reduction of the costs related to the salary, and in the following the integrations.
Incorrect procedure, according to the investigators, because the company knew well in advance that it would have to pay the athletes.
From the papers of the investigations, it appears that the prosecutors investigating Juventus would have come across the "practice" of keeping some confidential documents outside the office and then proceeding to their "