Among these transfers that could have given rise to the publication of false amounts in the club’s balance sheets, would appear that of the Portuguese Star Cristiano Ronaldo arrived in 2018, then returned to Manchester last summer.
Le Monde with AFP
Italian justice is closely interested in the accounts of the Juventus Football Club. The Financial Brigade of the Italian police searched the club’s offices, as part of a survey of players’ movements of these last three seasons, and how the annual financial results were presented between 2019 and 2021.
Juventus is suspected of having given false information to investors, and for producing invoices for non-existent transactions, the Turin Prosecutor’s office, Friday, November 26 in the evening.
The Italian Federation launched its own investigation
According to the Italian media, six Turin club leaders are in the collimator of the Financial Brigade. The club, in a statement released Saturday night, confirmed that one among them the President Andrea Agnelli, the vice president and former Czech player Pavel Nedved, as well as the former sports director Fabio Paratici, who now works in England, to Tottenham .
According to the Italian Ansa National News Agency, Saturday morning, investigators are particularly interested in the arrival of Portuguese Cristiano Ronaldo in the summer of 2018 for 100 million euros, then return to Manchester United last August For 15 million euros, plus 8 million euros as an option according to the sports performance of the player.
Last month, the Italian Football Federation (FIGC) launched its own investigation into a series of doubtful transfers, most of these movements involving Juventus. Some would have given rise to an artificial swelling of the value of the players, for accounting reasons, or to exchange of players to balance the accounts.