AN ITALIAN court has handed a 15-point deduction to Juventus after the club was caught in a false financial reporting scandal.
The Federal Court of Appeals accepted the Italian Football Federation (FIGC) prosecutor’s request to reopen the sporting trial against Juventus for their alleged usage of falsified capital gains.
The court then sanctioned the Serie A giants with a 15-point penalty today after it was discovered that they made payments that were not correctly reported during the Covid-19 pandemic.
Italian news agency ANSA reported today how FIGC prosecutor Giuseppe Chiné asked the Federal Court of Appeals to reopen proceedings against Juventus following new revelations from the Prisma investigation.
They analysed the club’s recent financial practices and alleged secret player payments agreed during the early stages of the Covid-19 pandemic in 2020.
The Federal Court of Appeals has accepted Chiné’s case and reopened proceedings against Juventus and their executives, leaving out the other involved clubs like Sampdoria and Empoli.
Chiné had asked for a nine-point deduction for Juventus, as well as suspensions for Andrea Agnelli, Fabio Paratici, Federico Cherubini and the rest of the board of directors.
The directors of the club at the time of the misdeeds have also been sanctioned with bans from all football.
Fabio Paratici, who is now with Tottenham Hotspur, has been banned for two-and-a-half years, Agnelli for two years, former star player Pavel Nedved for eight months and Cherubini for 16 months.
Juventus have the right to appeal this decision to Collegio di Garanzia dello Sport at the National Olympic Committee.
The reasoning behind these decisions will be announced in the coming days.
If the deduction is upheld, Juventus will drop from third spot with 37 points to 11th with 22.
This is not the first time Juventus would be severely punished for crimes against football.
Less than two months after winning the Serie A title, Italy’s most successful club were relegated to the second division in 2006 having been found guilty of match-fixing.
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