The investigation into Juventus‘ potential financial fraud continues and according to La Gazzetta dello Sport, the Turin prosecutor believes the club destroyed confidential documents, including a private agreement with Cristiano Ronaldo.
Offices were raided in multiple cities all over Italy yesterday as part of the investigation regarding Juventus’ potential financial fraud. Investigators are now focusing on the agreements reached by the Old Lady to cut players’ wages in March 2020, after the suspension of Serie A due to the COVID pandemic.
“The economic and financial effects of the understanding reached are positive for about €90m for the 2019/2020 financial year,” Juventus said in a statement. “The understanding provides for the reduction of the compensation for an amount equal to the monthly payments of March, April, May and June 2020.”
That decision caused a positive financial effect of circa €90m, but the Turin prosecutor believes that Juventus players eventually received at least €60m through private agreements with the club, which have not been reported.
Legal offices raided as part of Juventus fraud investigation
Among the documents seized in the club’s headquarters, investigators found ‘several private records variously denominated as part of the two wage manoeuvres for the financial years 2019-2020 2020-21 and not deposited with the competent bodies.’
According to the report, the headquarters of the World Soccer Agency, belonging to agent Alessandro Lucci, was also raided yesterday. Lucci is the representative of Leonardo Bonucci, Juan Cuadrado, Mattia Perin and Dejan Kulusevski, who joined Tottenham in January.
Investigators believe that Juventus players didn’t give up on wages but only saw payments postponed. Some of the agreements with the footballers were deposited with the Lega Calcio, but others were allegedly private agreements kept hidden from the competent bodies.
Some of those private agreements were found in the club’s emails and would grant the salary payment even in case of a future transfer. Investigators highlight the habit of keeping some of these confidential documents outside the club’s headquarters, destroying them once the agreements were fulfilled. Among them, there could be a private deal with Cristiano Ronaldo, mentioned in a phone-tapping between club directors but that investigators have not found.
Juve, l'inchiesta si allarga, tra stipendi manovrati e documenti da distruggere https://t.co/rcArzsbO31
— informazione sport (@infoitsport) March 24, 2022
This must be Moratti`s hand, right?
No worries juBentus fans, your filthy club will get away with it.
all part of a circus, as you already know, clown person
I think Inter destroyed evidence that they killed JFK and Elvis. See, I can make up unsubstantiated claims, too.
Send in the clowns…
Just Juventus being Juventus. Unfortunately in Italy Goddess Justitia is not blind and she is a Juve supporter.
Expect no consequences, expect Juve to continuously violate rules and get away with it.
Hate on Juve all you want, other clubs probably have done strange things but not being focused on.
It’s fun hating the team that kicked all the others butts!
Let’s just wait until the statute of limitation sets in! Oh wait, there’s another club who tackles things like that…
Goddess Giustizia needs to protect Juventus from all those wanting more gifts off the pitch. Var showed that Juve could still win a string of titles (9) despite haters saying that it would stop them cold. Losers are running out of excuses on their own incompetence (Juve have nothing to do with Inter‘s implosion after Dec) so they do everything they can to distract. The talking will be done on the pitch.
It must really bother these guys that it was Juventus players that were instrumental in winning the Euros (Bonu and Chiellini)… Bet they weren’t Juventini for you then. Same goes for the WC of 2006 which had half the Juve team in the final. 3 also playing for France. So keep hating and we’ll keep winning.
Kristina, habe u read the article or are u not Abel to read? Tell me what juve did wrong. Balett or chess seems to be more ur thing
This time relegate the filth to Serie D!
@And scudetto to Inter! Lol, losers
Goddess Giustizia needs to protect Juventus from all those wanting more gifts off the pitch. Var showed that Juve could still win a string of titles (9) despite haters saying that it would stop them cold. Opponents are running out of excuses for their own incompetence (Juve have nothing to do with Inter‘s implosion after Dec) so they do everything they can to distract. The talking will be done on the pitch.
It must really bother these guys that it was Juventus players that were instrumental in winning the Euros (Bonu and Chiellini)… Bet they weren’t Juventini for you then. Same goes for the WC of 2006 which had half the Juve team in the final. 3 also playing for France. So keep hating and we’ll keep winning.
How does cheating benefit the Azzurri? @rob , Robbo please talk after you’ve won the champions league… (never to speak again…)
@Zambrotta
I guess you are not aware that the statute of limitations saved juve in the Agricola doping scandal of the 90s. Otherwise a bunch of clubs were going to get your robbed Scudetti and Ajax would have gotten your robbed CL in 1996. The statute of limitations also saved Moggi from going to jail in the Naples trial.
Mobsters know how to get away with dirty business! Nothing will happen to them, just like in the Luis Suarez case 😉
Å tro eller ikke tro, det er spørsmålet. Samme å hate eller respektere.
Bevis på bordet og samme sjekk av andre klubber, ellers ser det ut som en uverdig revansj og hat.
Comisso som startet det hele til glede for “efterforskere”
This isn’t just a Juve thing, or even a Calcio thing. This is just how things are done in Italy. Sports, business, politics, Judicial. It is why no new stadiums in Italy. Except for Juve I guess. Look at Rome, Milan, Naples.
Tipical raid on juve like every year accusing them of wrong doings. Of course they didnt find any real evidence, like that time when they throw them in serie b for repeating talking with referees (what was doing every big club from players to management), so they progress with a witch hunt telling they destroyed some mystic documents. Not to mention they again do wire taping on private phone calls, then false accusing, all meanwhile inter are trying to win bologna 3-0 on green table, like that paper scudetto they won in 2006.
But sheeps cant read between lines; we live in time where facts dont matter as much as sensationalism
Just to mention, phone tapping is completely illegal, if anyone actually try to think clearly here.
That decision caused a positive financial effect of circa €90m, but the Turin prosecutor believes that Juventus players eventually received at least €60m through private agreements with the club, which have not been reported.
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That is financial fraud. Especially for a club on the stock market that are obliged to report all expenses. Send them back where they belong in B
Lets think clearly. Most teams except Chelsea and Man City have not splashes cash becasue they are broke, yet Rube have spent how much money the last two years while not making any?
**FINO ALLA FRODE**
Yeah brain, sure. You would be happy if juve were sold to americans or chinese like all other serie a clubs.
Antonio, and documents must have been destroyed?!!!
Does a day go by without Juventus cheating? What a dirty dirty club
@Damir , Damir, Damir… calm your socks some would you? There is a reason Juve was sent to Serie B and others were not.
If those wire-taps weren’t approved by law how do you explain them taking place? One would presume serious investigators seek a court approval before doing something that otherwise would be illegal.
Cry more babies
Can’t wait for Agnelli’s”Why always me?” t shirt.
I’ll be crying with joy when Milan wins the scudetto, and I’ll shed some tears when Juve gets knocked of the champions league next year…
@Damir,
But… But… It’s very clear on the field that referee helped them LOL.
Very clear. Once i saw a Roma match, juventus player dived outside the box and referee called a penalty.