At the Federal Court of Appeal, Chinè requested the inhibition of 20 months and 10 days for Paratici, 16 months for Agnelli, 12 months for Nedved, Garimberti and Arrivabene, 10 months and 20 days for Cherubini. The revocation request presented by the federal prosecutor against the acquittal of Juve and eight other clubs last May is being discussed
The same requests for sanctions for all the other clubs compared to the first sporting trial already celebrated in the spring on the issue of capital gains, requests for sanctions increased instead for Juventus by virtue of the greater seriousness of the disputed conduct compared to then. This is the line of the prosecutor Chiné who, in the hearing of the Federal Court of Appeal on the request to reopen the capital gains vein, asked for a penalty of 9 penalty points on the current championship: given the seriousness of the disputed facts and the impact sporting point of view on the championships, Chinè’s request is for a truly afflictive sanction and to keep Juve out of Europe. The prosecutor also requested the inhibition of 20 months and 10 days for Paratici, 16 months for Agnelli, 12 months for Nedved, Garimberti and Arrivabene, 10 months and 20 days for Cherubini.
The hearing
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The hearing for the revocation request that the federal prosecutor – with the lawyers connected remotely – started around 12.45, against the acquittal of Juve and eight other clubs last May. For Juventus, alongside the three lawyers Bellacosa, Sangiorgio and Apa, the new Juventus president Gianluca Ferrero and two of the executives subject to the investigation, Federico Cherubini but also Fabio Paratici, were also present in connection from Turin. In the courtroom, in addition to the Juventus club, also Sampdoria, Empoli, Genoa, Parma, Pisa, Pescara, Pro Vercelli and the old Novara and 52 managers, including Agnelli, Nedved and Cherubini. Chinè opened the session by motivating the admissibility of his request, then the formulation of the requests for sanctions will come. In the last trial he had asked for fines for the clubs and inhibitions for the managers, but it is said that he cannot go further and ask – in the light of the new elements collected – penalty points.
The motivations
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The chief prosecutor Giuseppe Chiné – after having studied the papers of the Prisma investigation of the Public Prosecutor of Turin with the utmost attention – is convinced that he has in hand those “new elements of evidence that demonstrate the existence of the crimes” which, according to the Article 63 of the Sports Justice Code, could allow the reopening of a trial even with sentences that have become unappealable and irrevocable. In this case we are talking about interceptions and documents, including Paratici’s so-called “black book”, which the federal prosecutor could not have at his disposal in the first trial, but on which he can now count thanks to ordinary justice.
The program
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After the Public Prosecutor’s Office, the defense will speak (Juve has already filed a defense brief), then the Court, still presided over by Judge Torsello, will meet in closed session to then express itself first on the admissibility of the Public Prosecutor’s appeal, then – in if it is accepted – on the merits: Juve and the other clubs could in theory be acquitted again, otherwise the sentences will be known. If the interventions of the lawyers do not go beyond measure, we will know everything within today’s day.
January 20, 2023 (change January 20, 2023 | 1:43 pm)
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