Juventus, capital gains investigation continues: new searches by GdF

Turin There are new allegations of false accountability against Juventus, with subsequent searches throughout Italy relating to the issue of capital gains. Do it today Guardia di Finanza in TurinOn the recommendation of the Public Prosecution Office, on the sidelines of the investigation with the Juventus club that had already begun last December, regarding the alleged capital gains in several years of the financial statements. The searches also included IT material on approval of financial statements between 2019 and 2021, and were conducted among several law firms in the cities of Turin, Rome and Milan.

Juventus there is a “salary maneuver” in the crossfire

“Salary maneuver” from Juventus It actually came into the sights of the Turin Public Prosecutor’s Office. It is an evolution of the survey of capital gains – €282m in three years – which last winter led to Juventus’s top managers being listed as suspects. Some papers have been taken regarding the budgets for the 2019-20 and 2020-21 semesters. This time, the accounting method was highlighted, which, according to what the newspapers leaked at the time, had been taken to avoid the effects of the economic crisis that swept the world of football due to the Covid-19 epidemic: – Postponing players’ salaries for four months to next year. The judges want to understand whether the procedure followed is fundamentally correct from an accounting point of view. Their idea is that the cuts and additions were agreed in a contextual manner. Then, the two items will be arranged in two different budgets: in the first cuts have been introduced, with the consequent reduction in salary-related costs, and in the following various mergers. An incorrect procedure, according to investigators, because the club knew well in advance that it would have to pay the athletes’ salaries. From the investigation papers, it appears that prosecutors investigating Juventus have come across the “practice” of keeping some confidential documents out of the office and then proceeding to “destroy” them once the purpose of the “escrow” has been exhausted. Hence the searches, which included studies and offices of lawyers and agents who were interested in the interests of the players. Regarding the issue of capital gains, the club president was investigated. Andrea Agnellideputy Pavel Nedved And five people, including executives and former executives. Juventus is therefore called into question as a legal person, and in terms of criminal justice, in the event of conviction, it is subject to severe punishment from an economic point of view. Capital gains are also dealt with after the Covisoc . report The Federal Prosecutor of FIFA, who notified Juventus on February 21 of the conclusion of the investigation. The judges were also interested in an alleged private agreement between Juventus And the Cristiano Ronaldo which they found traces of in an intercept, but which, in the case of investigations, would not have been presently visible.