Juventus have reportedly started planning their legal response to a new sporting trial based on falsified capital gains, salary manoeuvres and suspicious partnerships with clubs.
The FIGC have finished their investigation into the Bianconeri’s financial behaviour, looking into their alleged falsified capital gains through inflated player transfer values, their agreements to secretly pay their players wages that they’d publicly stated to be waived, and their suspicious partnerships with a number of other Italian clubs.
This is a separate case to the one that saw the FIGC dock them 15 points back in January and is also separate to the Prisma investigation, headed up by the Turin Public Prosecutor’s Office.
As detailed by Corriere dello Sport, Juventus are open to the idea of agreeing to a plea bargain with the FIGC, but would need two conditions to be met first.
The first of these is an agreement with the Agnelli family – the owners of the club – and the second is a ruling in favour of Juventus in their appeal against the 15-point penalty to CONI’s Collegio di Garanzia on April 19.
The Bianconeri lawyers have 15 days to draw up briefs and possibly ask for a plea deal with the FIGC Prosecutor’s Office.