The FIGC Prosecutor has closed the first part of the investigation over Luis Suarez’s Italian citizenship exam without finding any proof of illegal conduct from Juventus, so the Bianconeri won’t be sanctioned, at least for now.
The Uruguay star was in talks to join Juventus in 2020, but his European passport, which is valid to play in La Liga, could not be used in Serie A, so the striker had to take an Italian citizenship test.
It had been alleged that Suarez had been given the questions in advance, but no evidence of unlawful conduct from Juventus was found in the subsequent sporting investigation.
Last year, Suarez revealed that had reached an agreement with the Bianconeri.
The Serie A giants dropped the striker only a few weeks before the beginning of the investigation from the Perugia Public Prosecutor, signing Alvaro Morata instead.
Suarez, 34, eventually joined Atletico Madrid on a €7m deal from Barcelona.
The FIGC Prosecutor has now announced that Juventus won’t be punished because ‘there has not been sufficient evidence of proven unlawful conduct relevant to the Federal Sports Order.’
Professors from the University of Perugia who allegedly pre-arranged the exam, revealing the questions to Suarez in advance, are still under investigation and the FIGC Prosecutor has specified that he is waiting for ‘further documents’ from the Public Prosecutor in Perugia regarding their investigation, which is still ongoing.