L’investigation on the financial statements of Juventus it widens, at least in terms of time horizon. The power of attorney of Romawhich took ownership of the criminal proceedings initiated in Turin, is in fact also investigating the financial statements closed on June 30, 2022. The Prisma investigation, which in the sports justice system has already led to 10 penalty points for the Bianconeri in the past season and at disqualification of the former leaders of the club (including Andrea Lambs), had initially focused on financial statements from 2019 al 2021. Subsequently, at the beginning of April, the Turin prosecutors had opened a new file on the 2022 budget, but at the time without any hypothesis of crime and without suspects (form 45).
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Now, however, the Rome prosecutor’s office, which received all the documents from Turin, has taken a further step. Juventus itself communicates this, explaining that the investigators have asked the Juventus club to acquire documentation “relating, in particular, to the financial statements as at 30 June 2022”. “In this context, the company – reads a note released by the Juventus club – has learned that at the Rome Public Prosecutor’s Office investigations are pending related to company representatives for the case referred to in the art. 2622 code. civil in relation to the financial statements as at 30 June 2022. The company is not under investigation”. The accusation is therefore one of those already contested for past seasons: false social communications to the detriment of the company, its shareholders or creditors.
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According to those who investigate, therefore, the effects of the alleged irregularities contested against Juve – capital gains, cross agreements with other clubs and salary maneuvers – they would be reflected also on the balance sheet closed by the company after the resignation of the entire board of directors. “Due to the content of the request for documentary acquisition – continues the Juventus note – the company has reason to believe that the investigations concern the same matters (so-called capital gains from ‘cross operations’ and so-called ‘salary maneuvers‘) already the subject of theTurin investigation as well as gods Consob proceedings ex art. 154-ter of Legislative Decree 58/1998″. In fact, already on 31 July Consob notified Juventus of the start of a new procedure always concerning the trades of players (the so-called cross operations) and salary manoeuvres. The Stock Exchange Supervisory Authority has identified critical issues regarding 16 “cross operations” and the criterion for accounting for costs following salary adjustments. The Turin Prosecutor’s Office itself, already during the investigations, had underlined how the effects of the disputed operations they would inevitably have reflexes also on financial statements subsequent to those initially subject to the investigation.
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The “Prisma” investigation born in the shadow of the Mole, as known, sees investigations 12 people including the former president Agnelli and the former deputy Pavel Nedved, as well as the Juventus club itself. The crimes contested, for various reasons, are market manipulation, obstruction of supervision and false invoicing. The transmission of the documents for jurisdiction to Rome took place after the Court of Cassation accepted the defense’s appeal, after the preliminary hearing had already begun. The Roman prosecutors are examining the entire file and can indeed dispose of it more investigations. At the end of this process they could ask again indictment, confirming the outcome of Turin. Or ask for archiving. As for the sports justiceJuve has already paid: the process could only be reopened in the presence of facts newan unlikely hypothesis at the moment.
2023-12-07 09:42:24
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