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The Rome prosecution requested the indictment of the president of Naples, Aurelio de Laurentiis, as part of the procedure open to the hypothesis of false accounting concerning the 2019, 2020 and 2021 seasons of the SSC Napoli. According to the Italian news agency Ansa, the president of the Campania club is not the only one quoted by the prosecutors Lorenzo del Giudice and Giorgio Orano, who brought a trial at the Naples club and the right arm of the owner, Andrea Chiavelli . At the center of the survey, which ended this week and for which the official procedures were opened with the requests of the prosecutors, are the alleged capital gains of 2019 on the transfers of the defender Kostas Manolas de l'As Roma and 2020 of striker Victor Osimhen from Lille. According to investigators, the two operations have generated fictitious capital gains of several tens of millions of euros, inflating the values compared to the actual price of the players' market.
As the newspaper reports The Repubblicathe investigation, coordinated by the assistant prosecutor Giuseppe Cascini with the support of the Guardia Di Finanza, could also have consequences from a sporting point of view. Once the documents have been acquired, the FEDERAL prosecutor's office of the FIGC could indeed decide to intervene from a sporting point of view. For his part, the president of Laurentiis entrusted his defense to the lawyers Lorenzo Contrada and Fabio Fulgeri, ready to reject all the accusations. Aurelio de Laurentii's request for charges for false accounts brings Neapolitan supporters to wonder what the Campania club risks. The Repubblica Recalls that it is true that Naples has already been unscathed from a sports trial precisely for the Victor Osimhen affair, but the case of Juventus, punished for false capital gains, has left traces in Italy: the sports code provides The possibility of revocation (article 63 of the code of sports justice).
What do Naples and Laurentiis risk?
In the case of Juventus, the federal prosecutor's office had been convinced of the existence of a system thanks to telephone listening. In Naples, these are individual operations which are therefore not necessarily linked directly, such as the transfer of three young players to Lille (Claudio Manzi, Luigi Liguori, Ciro Palmieri) with the goalkeeper Oréstis Karnézis for 20 million euros and the transfer From Victor Osimhen to Naples for a total of 70 million. The file also includes other transactions, such as the transfer of Amadou Diawara to AS Roma in exchange for Kostas Manolas. The most obvious objection is the violation of the principle of sports loyalty, rectitude and probity – as in the case of Juventus. According to The repubublicait would be plausible to incur a penalty in the classification. The regulations provide for much more severe rules in cases of falsification of accounting or administrative documents. In these circumstances, the exclusion of the championship is even planned, but that does not seem to be the case for Naples with the Osimhen affair. What is certain is that the federal prosecutor's office has already asked for the documents from the Rome prosecution to make a decision. The newspaper The Repubblica Also written that, if, on the basis of the documents of the Rome prosecution, Naples was to be finally condemned as a sports, it would be necessary to understand when the decision would happen: from the moment he receives the documents, the federal prosecutor's office at 30 days for request the revocation. Once the request is filed, the Federal Court of Appeal has 30 days to convene a hearing. The first step would be to discuss the admissibility of the request for revocation. Then, the possible trial could then take place.
Should a penalty be purged this season or next season? According to La Gazzetta dello Sportit all depends on the speed with which the whole process will take place. According to the newspaper with pink papers, if everything had to be done by the end of April, the possible sanction would relate to this championship this season, otherwise it would be moved to the Serie A next. On Kiss Kiss Napoli RadioLorenzo Contrada, one of the club's lawyers, said: “Naples and Laurentiis run no risk, we are going to go to archiving. The position of the prosecution of Rome will be resolved by us, the lawyers, even if we are surprised, because in the light of the archiving of sports justice and the prosecution of Naples, we had already clarified how the disputed irregularities concerned purely questions techniques and that in no case, concerning third parties, were attributable to the higher bodies and therefore to the club. The president of Laurentiis is serene in this direction, we will demonstrate in any case his lack of involvement in any responsibility». Case to follow, but for the moment, Antonio Conte and his troops are preparing to play an important match against Côme on Sunday to consolidate his first place in the ranking.
