La Repubblica analysed Juventus’ legal position in their hidden salary payments case and suggested that serious time behind bars could be on the horizon.
On March 28 2020, the Bianconeri released a statement announcing that their players would formally waive four months worth of wages due to the emerging COVID pandemic. This statement had an effect on the stock market and the club’s share price rose by more than 5%. This is where Juventus’ troubles begin.
Juventus have been accused of secretly agreeing to pay their players these wages in the form of bonuses in following seasons. Investigators have discovered numerous documents alluding to this and six of these secret agreements had signatures from both the player and the club.
This, La Repubblica suggests, would amount to stock market manipulation, a crime that could result in up to 12 years in prison. This may explain why president Andrea Agnelli and the entire board of directors resigned suddenly on Monday evening.
However, it’s hard to imagine a prison sentence being handed out in this case, with more probable penalties including fines and possible point deductions for Juventus.
How about PSG and City? Oil money bribes.
Mikkel Bostrøm,
You see, there is a double standard, called “european vs oil money”. They have so much money, that uefa and fifa will even help them to avoid sanctions, they will help them to avoid to he publicly revealed. How can psg afford paying 400M for mbappe and neymar in one season? Easy, under the table money. And what a coincidence, psg president is the hair of Agnelli. Why? Because the need an insider in the ECA. Simple – keep it quiet and continue doing shady business. Agnelli went against the flow. Yes, he’s not a saint, but his progressive model of business, where he built a new stadium, new museum, etc, was not in line with fifa-uefa money laundering. Otherwise, we would never have known about the under the table salaries – fifa and uefa would have helped to hide it.
Nah the FTX of calcio will get the SBF treatment and they will be allowed to bootleg once again with the faking it to making it.
hope PSG man city and all that oil money dries up people from there are the most corrupt arrogant ignorant people once the oil money dries up they will go back 500 years.
@stefan
I don’t think you want them to go back 500 years, because 500 years ago “people from there” were some of the most enlightened and contributed more to human civilization than someone like you will ever will.