The Prisma investigation is ready to expand to include secret deals between Juventus and other clubs like Udinese and Atalanta.
La Repubblica details how the Turin Public Prosecutor’s Office are ready to open new fronts in their investigation ahead of the preliminary hearing, scheduled for March 27. The Bianconeri are already in a difficult position and things could be exacerbated as the investigation expands.
A key transfer being investigated is that of Rolando Mandragora. The Italian midfielder was purchased by Juventus for €9m in January 2016 and spent time on loan with Pescara and Crotone before being sold to Udinese for €20m in July 2018, yielding a capital gain of around €13.7m.
Two years later, in October 2020, Juventus re-signed Mandragora for €10m plus 6m in add-ons, sending him back to Udinese on loan a day later. The transfer has been deemed suspicious by investigators and they’ve called a number of witnesses: the player himself, his father-agent, Udinese vice-president Stefano Campoccia and former Juventus director Maurizio Lombardo, now at Roma.
Regarding Atalanta, the accusation is that a number of private contracts, totally around €14.5m, were not entered in their financial statements. The buy-back commitments, which were not communicated to Lega Serie A, involve Federico Mattiello (€4m), Simone Muratore (€4m), Mattia Caldara (€3.5m) and Cristian Romero (€3m). All four were sent from Turin to Bergamo.