The preliminary listening to of the Prisma Investigation involving Juventus was postponed to May 10, 2023 as introduced on Monday. The ongoing investigation was began by the Turin Prosecutor’s workplace over the membership’s monetary statements with the Bianconeri accused of false accounting, market manipulation and false company disclosures. In specific, prosecutors imagine that Juventus, between 2019 and 2021, have made use of a number of capital positive factors to cowl gaps within the monetary statements.
The Prisma investigation entails a number of former Juventus administrators together with present Tottenham’s Fabio Paratici, and the membership’s former chairman Andrea Agnelli and former vice-president Pavel Nedved who resigned on the finish of November in a shock transfer. Agnelli took cost of the membership in 2010 after some tough years, particularly in 2006 when Juventus had been on the heart of the Calciopoli scandal that relegated the Italian facet to the second division. Later, beneath Agnelli, Juventus managed to win 9 Serie A titles in a row, from 2011 to 2020.
Juventus’ current monetary statements went beneath scrutiny by prosecutors and Italian market regulator CONSOB prior to now months for alleged false accounting and market manipulation. The membership acknowledged the so-called “wage maneuvers” from the 2019-20 and 2020-21 fiscal years, including that “the complexity of such profiles on valuation components could also be topic to completely different interpretations.” A brand new board was shaped originally of January, appointing Gianluca Ferrero as chairman and Maurizio Scanavino as CEO. Scanavino was interim normal director following the board’s resignation as effectively.
“We are nonetheless in a section the place the components concerned are being recognized,” Maurizio Bellacosa, one the membership’s attorneys informed reporters on Monday after the postponement of the listening to. “It will probably be accomplished within the subsequent listening to on May 10, and, if there’s time, the preliminary listening to will instantly start, additionally deciding on the territorial jurisdiction.” The attorneys of the membership imagine that the case needs to be moved to a different metropolis like Milan or Rome, whereas the Prosecutors insist the case ought to keep in Turin.
Juventus are being investigated for the so referred to as capital positive factors offers, which implies Juventus swapped gamers with one other membership concerned for a price with out truly transferring cash between the 2 events concerned within the deal. Also, the Italian membership is accused of getting offered false details about two completely different wage maneuvers that passed off in 2020 in the course of the pandemic.
While the Bianconeri are actually ready for the preliminary listening to to happen in May, on April nineteenth Juventus will know the result of their attraction towards the 15-points deduction from the Italian FA (FIGC).
