Not just capital gains: for Juventus, the salary chapter is also being opened in the sports court. In addition to the federal appeals court hearing of the Figc (which on Monday will have to reformulate the penalty for the capital gains case), another sporting trial is coming for the black and whites: in fact, the Federcalcio prosecutor has just referred the black and white club for the so-called salary maneuver. Juve is accused of violating article 4.1, and therefore of sporting loyalty. The trial is scheduled for June.
Juventus referred for salary maneuver
The Federal Attorney Giuseppe Chine, in relation to the investigation «Transmission of the documents by the Turin Public Prosecutor’s Office contained in the file at the basis of the notice pursuant to art. 415bis cpp issued on 24/10/2022 against the company FC Juventus SpA and its members», having examined the results of the criminal investigation and the documents acquired by the Public Prosecutor of Turin; having evaluated the investigation carried out in the disciplinary field and given the proposal of the Deputy Federal Prosecutor Giorgio Ricciardi and the Deputy Federal Prosecutors Luca Scarpa and Alessandro D’Oria; referred Juventus to the National Federal Court – Disciplinary Section, as direct and objective liability, pursuant to art. art. 6, paragraph 1 and 2, of the Sports Justice Code, for the acts and behaviors put in place by its managers; and in order Andrea Agnelli (at the time, Chairman of the Board of Directors), Pavel Nedved (at the time, Deputy Chairman of the Board of Directors), Fabio Paratici (at the time, Chief Football Officer), Federico Cherubini (at the time of the events Head of Football Teams & Technical Areas), Giovanni Manna (at the time of the events DS of the Under 23), Paolo Morganti (at the time of the events Head of Football Operations), Stefano Braghin (at the time of the events Director of the Youth Sector), who are accused of violating art. 4, paragraph 1, of the CGS for various acts and behaviors relating to 4 different aspects covered by the investigation: the salary maneuver for the 2019-20 season; the one for the 2020-21 season; the vein agents; partnership relationships with other clubs, for which the outcome of the investigation is summarized below (among other things, the referral indicates the 131 documents, deeds, minutes, contracts and email correspondence relevant for the purposes of the investigation) .
As regards the 2019-20 salary maneuver, it is contested ad Andrea Agnelli e Fabio Paratici (Chairman of the Board of Directors and Chief Football Officer respectively), for their respective competence, the violation of art. 4, paragraph 1, of the CGS (“principles of loyalty, correctness and probity”), for having filed with the Lega Serie A the 4-month salary reduction agreements (March, April, May and June 2020) of 21 players (Bentancur Colman Rodrigo, Bernardeschi Federico, Bonucci Leonardo, Chiellini Giorgio, Cuadrado Bello Juan Guillermo, Da Silva Danilo Luiz, De Ligt Matthijs, De Sciglio Mattia, Demiral Merih, Costa De Souza Douglas, Dybala Paulo Exequiel, Higuain Gonzalo Gerardo, Khedira Sami, Lobo Silva Alex Sandro, Matuidi Blaise, Pjanic Miralem, Rabiot Adrien, Ramsey Aaron James, Dos Santos Aveiro Cristiano Ronaldo, Rugani Daniele, Szczesny Wojciech) and the coach Maurizio Sarri, failing to deposit the economic integration or recovery agreements of 3 of the 4 months waived (April, May, June 2020) already concluded with the same players and with the coach, in the knowledge that the economic agreements containing the salary supplements for the recovery of the waived months would have been filed after 30.6.2020, i.e. after the closing of the accounting year on 06.30.2020, as actually happened then.
The same violation, and in this case there is also among the managers under investigation Pavel Nedved, vice chairman of the Board of Directors, is disputed for the 2020-21 season, in relation to the salary reduction agreements of amounts substantially equal to 4 months’ salaries (March, April, May and June 2020) of 17 players (Bentancur Colman Rodrigo, Bernardeschi Federico Bonucci Leonardo Chiesa Federico Cuadrado Bello Juan Guillermo Da Silva Danilo Luiz Kulusevski Dejan Lobo Silva Alex Sandro Mc Kennie Weston James Earl Rabiot Adrien Szczesny Wojciech Demiral Merih Ramsey Aaron James Ramos De Oliveira Arthur Henrique , Chiellini Giorgio, Dybala Paulo Exequiel, Dos Santos Aveiro Cristiano Ronaldo) in the awareness that there would not have been any effective salary reduction, as the same amounts would have been recognized to the same players (a circumstance that did not occur only for Dybala and Cristiano Ronaldo) in the subsequent sports seasons, as already agreed between the parties through private agreements not reported on federal forms (the so-called side letters). Circumstance which then actually occurred through the filing, after 30.6.2021, the closing date of the 2021 accounting year (except for Arthur Melo, who received the salary amounts waived in the 2022/23 season as an incentive to leave) of economic agreements for wage integration. All this, moreover, in order to postpone in subsequent years (2022 and, for some, also 2023) the costs related to the amounts waived by the players before 06.30.2021, with this, moreover, violating the accrual accounting principle and, therefore, thus violating the principle of equal conditions with the other sister companies of the League of A, in terms of economic and financial equilibrium.
Relations with agents
As for the third line of investigation, that relating to relations with agents, Agnelli, Paratici, Nedved, and also Federico Cherubini, Head of Football Teams & Technical Areas, Giovanni Manna, DS of the Under 23, Paolo Morganti, Head of Football Operations, Stefano Braghin, Director of the Youth Sector (current Head of Juventus Women), each to the extent of their respective competence, the violation of art. 4, paragraph 1, of the Sports Justice Code, for having violated the principles of loyalty, correctness and probity, both independently and in violation and/or circumvention of the provisions of art. 6.2, paragraph 7, of the FIGC Sports Agents Regulations and in competition with some agents in relation to a series of transfers, contract renewals or signing of a professional contract.
In these various situations between 2015 and 2022, according to the Public Prosecutor’s Office, the club: would have paid sports agents for player transfer operations in the absence of a real intermediation activity by the agent; in relation to the transfer of some players, he allegedly made use of a sports agent without any assignment of mandate; or in other cases he would have given a “fictitious/untruthful” mandate to another agent; or again he would have paid an agent with a consideration in the absence of a real intermediation activity in order to compensate and remedy the debts towards the agent for the negotiation of another footballer at the time of the events a minor or “young player” ( for which therefore no consideration could be agreed).
In this regard, a copy of the investigative documents relating to the conduct of the agents under investigation (Davide Lippi, Gabriele Giuffrida, Giorgio Parretti, Antonio Rebesco, Luca Ariatti, Silvio Pagliari, Giuseppe Galli, Michele Fioravanti, Luca Puccinelli, Tullio Tinti, Vincenzo Morabito) has been forwarded to the Federal Commission for sports agents, as far as it is concerned. The transactions for which the charges against the Juventus managers and agents are disputed concern: the transfer of the player Spinazzola Leonardo to AS Roma (on 30 June 2019); the permanent transfer (June 2020) of the player Sene Kaly to Basel FC; the contract renewal of 26 March 2020 of the footballer Chiellini Giorgio; the loan transfer with the obligation to buy of the player Rafia Hamza to Standard De Liege (August 2021); the temporary transfer of the player Francofonte Nicolò to Sampdoria (January 2020); the permanent transfer of the player Marricchi Filippo to Novara Calcio (August 2019); the permanent transfer (January 2019) of the footballer Kameraj Cendrim to Lugano (Switzerland); the contractual renewal of the player Petrelli for the 2019/20 football season; the transfer (January 2019) from Genoa to Juventus of the footballer Zanimacchia Luca; the transfer from Pescara to Juventus of the footballer Brunori Matteo Luigi (2019/20 football season); the extension, for the 2020/21 football season, of the contract of the footballer Ranocchia Filippo; the transfer, on 22 June 2021, of the footballer Olivieri Marco from Juventus to Lecce; the transfer of Clemenza Luca to Pescara (31 August 2021); the stipulation of the professional contract of the players Oliveira Rosa Lucas, De Oliveira Andrade Wesley David, Portanova Manolo.
Finally, in relation to the last aspect, relating to partnership relationships, the same violation of article 4 paragraph 1 of the CGS is contested, in addition to Paratici, also against Cesare Gabasio, a person who carried out activities within or in the interest of the Juventus company, for having violated the principles of loyalty, correctness and probity, in relation to the fact of having negotiated, signed or in any case agreed with the companies Sampdoria, Atalanta, Sassuolo, Udinese, Bologna and Cagliari confidential agreements concerning transfer market transactions relating to the purchase and/or sale and/or redemption of players, without filing the relevant federal forms with the Lega di Serie A and/or filing federal forms containing totally or partially different agreements from those actually concluded, thus maintaining a conduct of clear circumvention of the federal legislation which, for reasons of transparency, requires giving adequate evidence of the agreements concerning the transfer of the rights to the sports performances of the players.
In this regard, the positions of the clubs and their managers who have established such relations with Juventus will be assessed following the outcome of the further investigations in progress, currently covered by preliminary investigation secrecy, following the transmission of the criminal investigation documents by the Public Prosecutor of Turin to the competent Public Prosecutors on 24 February 2023.
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