Paulo Dybala is being interviewed as part of an investigation into possible Juventus fraud over ‘donated’ wages during the pandemic that were paid anyway with secret agreements, including Cristiano Ronaldo.
The investigation began several months ago into inflated transfer fees and has now spread to other areas of their financial dealings.
According to La Gazzetta dello Sport, players and agents could be interviewed as witnesses by investigators into the Bianconeri books from 2019 to 2021.
Sky Sport Italia report Dybala is the first to be interviewed this afternoon and was spotted at the Procura in Turin.
Investigators believe Juventus destroyed documents, including agreement with Ronaldo
Specifically, Juve announced in 2020 that the players had agreed to give up three months’ worth of wages to help the club through the COVID-19 pandemic.
However, investigators argue that many of the players received the full salary anyway, it just wasn’t put on the Juventus accounts, therefore avoiding taxes and helping to balance the books.
If confirmed, that would not only suggest Juve were trying to pay their players with ‘moonlighting’ wages, but also that these big stars who declared they were giving up money to help the club during a difficult time did no such thing.
There has long been talk of a private agreement with Cristiano Ronaldo and it is now reported that wasn’t the only one, with circa €60m of the €90m supposedly ‘saved’ in fact paid anyway.