2023-05-30 16:28:48
The agreement requested by Juve and accepted on Tuesday by the Court of the Italian Football Federation puts an end to all the procedures before the sports courts targeting the Turin club. The latter is fined more than 700,000 euros in this so-called “salary maneuvers” case and remains penalized with a ten-point withdrawal in the league for accounting fraud during player transfers, the federation said.
Juve are indeed waiving all possible remedies in both cases under this agreement, according to the same source. On Tuesday, in the salary case, sports justice imposed a fine of 718,240 euros on Juventus and fines on seven former club officials ranging from 10,000 to 47,000 euros. The former president of Juve, Andrea Agnelli, asked him for additional time to reach an agreement with the federal prosecutor’s office and will not be judged for a few weeks by the Federation in this case.
According to the daily La Stampa, owned, like Juventus, by the Agnelli family, the club accepted this solution and undertook not to present an appeal in order to avoid a possible penalty with withdrawals of points which would have potentially further away from the various European championships.
The bianconero club and several ex-leaders including former presidents Andrea Agnelli, vice-president Pavel Nedved and sporting director Fabio Paratici, had been sent to federal court for the deferred payment by the club of certain player salaries, without having any duly referred to the authorities, according to the Italian Football Federation.
These “manoeuvres” on wages, aimed at artificially lowering the losses in the annual balance sheets during the Covid 19 pandemic, had been noted by the Turin public prosecutor’s office in a judicial investigation targeting Juve. The club is accused of having officially announced the non-payment of several months’ wages but of having in fact agreed with its players, via private agreements, to pay a large part of them over a subsequent financial year.
The Turin leaders are accused of having filed with the Italian League the non-payment agreements of four monthly installments (March to June 2020) for 21 players and the coach, but not the private agreements agreed with them to settle three. out of four later. Similar maneuvers would have been carried out in the following season 2020-2021.
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