Fabio Fulgeri, Aurelio De Laurentiis’ criminal lawyer, was confident that Napoli would receive a ‘favourable outcome’ in the investigation into Victor Osimhen’s transfer.
The Naples Public Prosecutor’s Office are investigating the Nigerian striker’s €75m move from Lille to Napoli back in September 2020, believing that falsified capital gains may have been used in the deal.
€20m of that figure was made up through player exchanges, leading to questions surrounding the true values of backup goalkeeper Orestis Karnezis and youngsters Claudio Manzi, Luigi Liguori and Ciro Palmieri, who were part of the Osimhen deal.
Speaking to Radio Crc, Fulgeri was first asked if Napoli fans should be worried about the investigation.
“It’s a question that many of you are asking me, unfortunately I’m a simple criminal lawyer, the sporting trial ended positively for our team.
“The investigations are going in the direction of a deepening for the material to be acquired, but they are going in the direction of a favorable outcome.
“We are talking about a false accounting investigation concerning the Osimhen operation. The investigation started in France.”
He touched on if there were any similarities with the Juventus capital gains case, which saw them docked 15 points by the FIGC court.
“The Osimhen case I don’t think can be compared to the Juventus case, Napoli didn’t do business with Juventus so they are not involved. If no new elements emerge everything should end well.
“An extension has been requested in order to study the material acquired, it takes the necessary time to judge the documents acquired.
“I cannot even know what the object of the verifications is, the investigations are secret, but the outlook is that the deal took place in a fair manner without falsification of the balance sheets.”
Finally, Fulgeri commented on if Napoli could face any sporting sanctions, such as a point deduction.
“Grassani is in charge of sports justice, but having already analysed the same allegations and having expressed a favourable opinion, I don’t think things can change unless new elements emerge.”