The Italian Football Federation (FIGC) has to deliver to Juventus the so-called ‘Covisoc letter’, a document that could favor the Turin club so that the fifteen-point penalty it received in Serie A is annulled.
A new twist in the script in the case of Juventus and the generation of fictitious capital gains that earned them the said sporting sanction of 15 penalty points under the framework of the ‘Prism Investigation’.
And it is that the Council of State (highest Italian legal-administrative body) rejected this Saturday the request of the FIGC against the decision of the TAR (Regional Administrative Court) of Lazio that ordered the delivery of the so-called ‘Covisoc’ card (surveillance commission accountant of sports societies within the FIGC) to Fabio Paratici and Federico Cherubini, in charge of Juventina’s defense, among others.
The Italian Federation must deliver the letter to Juve
The FIGC, therefore, has to deliver a document to Juve before March 14 that could be decisive for the future of the penalty, since it is from April 21, 2021, the date from which the Italian club is considered to be taken as a reference to the initiation of the investigation and, therefore, will render the documents useless after July 14 of that year, considering them outside the legal deadlines.
The ‘Covisoc Letter’, which includes communications between Giuseppe Chiné -the federal prosecutor in charge of the investigation- and the FIGC, will show the existence of the investigation before the official opening date; or knowledge of a crime, which means violating the deadlines for filing an investigation.
Another version
However, according to various local media outlets with access to the aforementioned document, the communication between the Prosecutor’s Office and FIGC will not mean the initiation of an investigation due to a key passage in the six-page document.
“It is clear that the implementation of disciplinary action in this matter may be beneficial to continue when sufficient elements appear to justify the need to investigate cases that reasonably suggest the existence of player substitutions in between two or more professional clubs, in terms of a systematic nature. , not just an isolated operation,” the document reads.
The phrase “when sufficient elements appear to justify the need to investigate” will end Juventus’ appeal possibilities.
The decision, on March 23
On March 23, the Council of State will decide whether this document can be used as an element of the investigation in the preliminary hearing that will take place on March 27 in the framework of the ‘Prisma’ investigation, which investigates whether the Italian club brought out fictitious capital gains and irregular salary maneuvers to some of its players.
The Court is investigating whether the Italian club increased the real market price of its players in order to obtain a greater benefit in its subsequent sale (case of capital gains) and postponement of payments to some players in the 2020 financial year that are not included in the balance of the aforementioned year (falsification of accounts).
Source: La Verdad
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