2023-04-20 19:22:24
The 15 penalty points imposed on Juventus Turin in the Italian championship due to questionable transfers were suspended on Thursday by the Guarantee College of the Italian Olympic Committee (Coni), which considered that the sanction should be reassessed.
Juve therefore recovers, at least temporarily, its 15 points and goes back to third place in the Italian Championship, pending a new judgment from the Court of Appeal of the Italian Federation, according to this decision rendered the next day. the examination of the appeal of the Turin club which requested an outright cancellation of the sanction.
In its decision, the Guarantee Committee, the highest degree of sports justice in Italy, indicated that it had admitted Juve’s appeal against this penalty while referring the case to the Federation “for it to review its evaluations”.
This decision paves the way for a possible reduction in the number of points from which Juve could ultimately be sanctioned, according to several Italian media.
The most successful club in Italian football was sanctioned on January 20 with a withdrawal of fifteen points for having artificially reduced its losses by realizing capital gains deemed overvalued during the sale of certain players between 2018 and 2021.
In parallel with this procedure before sports justice, Juve – a club listed on the stock exchange – is also the subject of proceedings before ordinary justice for alleged accounting fraud, linked both to these so-called “fictitious” capital gains and “manoeuvres” to defer the payment of certain player salaries.
According to the Turin public prosecutor’s office, Juve officially announced the non-payment of several months’ wages during the Covid pandemic but in fact agreed with their players, via private agreements, to pay a large part of them over an accounting period. following.
The prosecution requested in December the referral to trial of the club and twelve leaders and ex-leaders. Justice must continue the examination of this request for dismissal during a hearing on May 10.
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