Serie A
According to the Turin prosecutor’s office, Juventus is guilty of the wrong balance sheet
Juventus and its directors were found guilty of falsifying accounting data by the Torino prosecutor, who submitted a request to the investigating magistrate to place Andrea Agnelli under house arrest, a request that was rejected.
The legal adventures continue for Juventus, Andrea Agnelli and Pavel Nedved and 14 other people in management (current and former members) as both have been found guilty along with 14 other people of false accounting data, according to the Torino prosecutor’s office ( a case started from 2021 ), as reported by Italian media.
The investigation focused on three seasons (2018, 2019, 2020) in which falsifications were found in the figures reported by the Bianconeri and the real figures of their balance sheets in order to profit in the transfer market.
According to the prosecutor, the suspects, who number 16, including Agnelli and Nedved, had acted in two ways as reported in Italy. By swapping players and wage maneuvers for footballers. The trades that didn’t bring in cash were made at random values that didn’t reflect the real value of the players.
The wage maneuvers affected the 2019/20 and 2020/21 seasons. In the first the footballers instead In order to get four months’ wages, they received one month’s wages. The three months that were not given would run on in the following years, which was not accounted for.
The second wage maneuver was carried out through private documents filed with Serie A. The Turin prosecutor requested that Andrea Agnelli be sentenced to house arrest, a request rejected by the coroner.
Source: sport 24
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