(ANSA) - NAPLES, MARCH 02 - A flurry of acquittals for the big names in Italian football on charges of tax irregularities in the 'Out of Play' trial.
The seventh criminal section of the court of Naples has acquitted all the accused presidents or former presidents: Aurelio De Laurentiis, Claudio Lotito, Adriano Galliani, Andrea Della Valle and Luca Campedelli.
The footballer Ezequiel Lavezzi was also acquitted.
The only sentence for Alessandro Moggi: one year, suspended sentence, for not having accounted for an invoice relating to a consultancy for the sale of Lavezzi.
The sentence comes seven years after the opening of an investigation that caused a sensation in the world of football.
In January 2016, the prosecutors of the Naples prosecutor pointed the finger at "a deeply rooted system" to evade the taxes carried out, according to the indictment, by 35 A and B companies and about a hundred managers, football players and sports agents.
The alleged offenses would have been linked to market operations, through a system which on the one hand would have stolen money from the state coffers and on the other favored clubs, especially their agents.
A theorem denied by today's sentence: Alessandro Moggi himself was convicted of only one of the charges, linked to the sale of Lavezzi for a consultancy provided in the transfer of Pocho from Naples to Paris Saint Germain.
"I'm super calm, it's all fluff", commented the president of Napoli Aurelio De Laurentiis on the day of the news of the maxi investigation.
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