Home » today » Sport » Italian federal prosecutor Giuseppe Chiné is expected to announce the closure of investigations into Juventus’ “salaries and new capital gains” negotiations, potentially leading to charges against the club and its members for altering balance sheets and violating federal rules. The investigations centered on salary agreements in the 2019-20 and 2020-21 seasons, which were impacted by the pandemic. While some players could potentially face disqualification, the club’s internal regulations may offer partial relief from strict liability.

Italian federal prosecutor Giuseppe Chiné is expected to announce the closure of investigations into Juventus’ “salaries and new capital gains” negotiations, potentially leading to charges against the club and its members for altering balance sheets and violating federal rules. The investigations centered on salary agreements in the 2019-20 and 2020-21 seasons, which were impacted by the pandemic. While some players could potentially face disqualification, the club’s internal regulations may offer partial relief from strict liability.

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TORINO – There’s a breakthrough on the horizon. Indeed, even more, specifically. Finally, there is a horizon. Temporal and visual. Barring unforeseen events, in fact, in these first days of the week – potentially even today – the federal prosecutor Giuseppe Chiné will send the news of the closure of the investigations on the subject of “salaries and new capital gains” to the subjects involved. A sort of guarantee notice (wanting to draw a parallelism with the procedure of ordinary justice) or a “pre-referral” in which – at the end of almost four months of investigative work – the potential charges against the Juventus and some of its members or former members. Under the magnifying glass of the members of the Federal Prosecution (and before that, to tell the truth, those of the Turin prosecutor’s office) the salary agreements in the 2019-20 and 2020-21 seasons, those conditioned by the measures for the pandemic, have ended: it is a matter of reducing or postponing payments, depending on of points of view. Juventus, according to the investigators, would have altered the balance sheets. There Sports Justice it would also reveal the seriousness of drafting private agreements, anything but permitted by federal rules. From this point of view, potentially, the players involved would also risk (disqualification) even if at the moment the hypothesis is remote. At the limit, some agents could be involved, together with the Juventus managers of the time. Juventus itself, having a specific internal regulation, could in part be relieved of strict liability.