The president of the FIGC Gabriele Gravina he is under investigation in Rome in the investigation for misappropriation e self-launderingin relation to the reports drawn up in 2022 by the “SOS Group” of the National Anti-Mafia Prosecutor’s Office, on some of its financial operations dating back to the years 2018 and 2019.
These same information are part of those that the Perugia Prosecutor’s Office, in another investigation, considers to be the result of unauthorized access by the coordinator of the SOS group, the financier Pasquale Striano. The latter incident for which Gravina considers himself an injured party, given that, according to the Umbrian prosecutors, Striano would have built a “proposal for transmission to the Prosecutor’s Office” of Rome, signed by the anti-mafia magistrate Antonio Laudati (which answers to abuse of office), also based on notes obtained in 2022 by Emanuele Floridi (his lawyer denies the circumstance). Floridi is a former collaborator of Gravina and then close to the president of Lazio, Claudio Lotito.
Gravina has already been questioned by prosecutors for two hours. The president of the FIGC, his lawyers say, has asked to be heard to clarify his position and “the circumstances of which he was the victim”. “This decision was made in order to protect its image and by virtue of the full trust he places in the magistrates who are following the case. In this matter, our client is an offended person, for this reason we hope that light will be shed as soon as possible on what is emerging as a real dossier activity, for which we also hope that the instigators will be identified”, they stated in a note from the lawyers Leo Mercury e Fabio Viglione.
In the documentation that arrived in Rome from Perugia, there is a summary of two sales carried out by Gravina in 2018, the year of his election as FIGC president (before he was head of the Lega Pro): the purchase of a house in Milan for the daughter of his partner and of the never completed sale to the consultant of the football league, Marco Bogarelli (deceased in 2021) of one collection of ancient books. According to the notes sent to Striano, the money movements would be linked, in a hitherto unproven manner, to the sale of Lega Pro TV rights, but sources close to the FIGC president deny these reconstructions. The prosecutors will discuss in the next few hours whether to remove the part of the investigation which concerns the purchase of the house and send the correspondence to Prosecutor’s office in Milan by competence.
2024-03-06 18:50:51
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