According to multiple reports in Italy, the agents Fali Ramadani and Pietro Chiodi are under investigation for alleged tax evasion and money laundering in several transfers, including those of Federico Chiesa to Juventus and Miralem Pjanic to Barcelona.
Yesterday, the agents of Guardia di Finanza – Italy’s Financial Police – knocked on the door of nine Serie A clubs (Inter, Milan, Juventus, Verona, Fiorentina, Napoli, Torino, Cagliari and Roma) and two of Serie B (Frosinone and SPAL) to acquire emails and documents regarding communications between them and some agents.
As of today, the clubs are not under investigation, but there could be a link between this investigation and the one named ‘Prisma’, which involves Juventus for alleged false accounting.
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The investigation regarding Juventus is carried out by the Turin Public Prosecutor, while the Milan Public Prosecutor coordinates the new one involving Ramadani and Chiodi.
Investigators are looking into suspicious transactions between clubs and agents which are believed to be commissions for transfers, including those of Federico Chiesa from Fiorentina to Juventus and Miralem Pjanic from Juve to Barcelona, both completed in 2020.
The clubs allegedly put the money in Milanese bank accounts belonging to Ramadani. At that point, money was transferred to other companies in the ownership of the agent who has his fiscal residence in Ireland.
The Milan Prosecutor believes that these operations led to tax evasion for at least €7m thought a ‘stable and hidden organization’ as he wrote in the acquisition decree showed by the Guardia di Finanza to the 11 Serie A clubs.
Ramadani e Chiodi indagati sulle trattative Chiesa e Pjanic: tutto sull’inchiesta #calciomercato https://t.co/kAjjnpiGEF
— La Gazzetta dello Sport (@Gazzetta_it) December 14, 2021