Gambling addiction cannot be fought with a hard fist. Fagioli has repented, is undergoing treatment and will be able to do so for about a year away from the pitch. In fact, October 29th – the day on which the file opened last August 30th should have been closed – will not be reached with a referral from the FIGC Prosecutor’s Office, therefore it will not even end up in trial. Between today and tomorrow, Nicolò will negotiate his sporting sentence, which will start immediately after the ratification of the agreement: the Juventus midfielder, thanks to his collaboration and self-report to the Federal Prosecutor’s Office, could get away with a strong discount, more than 50% one hundred of the three-year ban provided for members who bet on football matches.
The moves of the FIGC prosecutor’s office
It is the first real indication of how the FIGC prosecutor Giuseppe Chiné is dealing with the latest scandal, which risks upsetting young careers and staining the Italian championship again. But it is also a signal sent, through the Fagioli “case”, to other players, who could soon end up under trial. It is an invitation to cooperate immediately, to admit and report now to be treated with the foil, otherwise the saber will come at a later time. Sandro Tonali, the national teammate who allegedly installed the illegal betting sites app in Fagioli, has already chosen the same path. Already on Sunday the lawyers of the former Milan playmaker (now at Newcastle) started negotiations with the sports justice system for self-reporting, paving the way for another plea deal. Tonali will soon be heard in the offices in via Campania, but in the meantime, yesterday the lawyer Marco Feno showed up at the Turin Palace of Justice to formalize his assignment to the deputy prosecutor Manuela Pedrotta and is laconic: «For now I have not been told if an interrogation is scheduled.”
Summit a Torino
Also yesterday, in fact, the acting prosecutor, Enrica Gabetta, the public prosecutor in charge of the investigation, managers and investigators of the flying squad of the Piedmont prosecutor’s office, who are investigating a ring of clandestine betting linked to crime, met to take stock, in a defined “update” meeting. Checks will be carried out on any possible sporting fraud profiles, but at the moment, according to what we understand, none have emerged. The proceeding therefore remains open for “illegal exercise of gaming and betting activities” and, in the meantime, the so-called forensic copy of the mobile phones seized by the police (on the indication of the Prosecutor’s Office) has been carried out, not only from Tonali, but also from the other under investigation, Nicolò Zaniolo. «He never bet, it’s possible he only played card games such as poker and blackjack on illegal online platforms, without knowing that they were illegal. We will clarify everything”, continues to repeat the lawyer Gianluca Tognozzi, the Aston Villa striker’s lawyer. And moreover, if the former Giallorossi player had limited himself to frequenting the platforms without focusing on football matches, he would only risk a fine of a few hundred euros, without any sporting implications. In fact, the Federal Prosecutor’s Office has not opened any files on the former Rome at the moment.
Complaints against unknown persons
Meanwhile, the shadow is gathering over the position of many players and over a widespread practice also in Serie B and Lega Pro. However, we will have to get to the bottom of it so as not to throw random names into the cauldron. The former king of the paparazzi Fabrizio Corona had already done that of Zalewski (not registered in the register of suspects), he would be ready for new revelations (perhaps already tonight on Rai 3, in the hosted Avanti Popolo) and to confirm that «the companies they knew everything.” Lists of accusations have been circulating on social media for days, while the guilty party goes crazy on WhatsApp chats with out-of-control audio. So much so that several defamed players have already filed complaints against unknown persons. The madness now is the fans’ bets on who has bet.
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