Lazio President Claudio Lotito responded to FIGC chief Gabriele Gravina, complaining ‘they are the ones telling lies, I have a sentence on my side.’
Lotito was initially suspended for seven months over the scandal involving either falsified or unusually interpreted COVID-19 tests for players at a laboratory in Salerno.
That was raised to 12 months following an appeal.
Pending a new appeal on October 19, Lotito insists he should be considered innocent and therefore allowed to take part in Federation business.
The FIGC maintains the appeal does not remove the existing verdict and he is therefore still suspended, so threw him out of a meeting last week.
Following Federation President Gravina’s comments that Lotito and the Lazio lawyers are trying to disguise their responsibility by mis-reading the appeal verdict, the club chief hit back.
“It is the FIGC that is lying, I have a sentence on my side,” said Lotito to Sport Mediaset.
La controreplica di Lotito: “Le bugie le dice la FIGC, ho una sentenza dalla mia parte” https://t.co/AUoAoPFEvN
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