The Italian Football Federation (FIGC) Prosecutor’s Office requested on Monday that Juventus be penalized for withdrawing 11 points in the Serie A classification, which will be fulfilled this season, for the so-called ‘Case Capital gains’, where the Italian club has been accused of increasing the market value of footballers in order to generate more revenue from their transfers.
The prosecutor of FIGC Giuseppe Chinéwhich has been handling the case since the beginning of 2022, requested before the court of appealsthe withdrawal of Italian competition points, as well as a disqualification for eight months for the Czech Pavel Nedved, former president of ‘Juve’, and seven other directors of the Turin team, according to local media.
The request of FIGC Prosecutor’s Office It comes a month after the Guarantee College of the Italian Olympic Committee (CONI), an independent body that is Italy’s third and final level of justice in sports, temporarily revoked the 15-point sanction imposed on the club at the end of January – for both cases – due to the lack of consistency in the motivation of punishment.
Awaiting his decision this Monday court of appealssecond level of Italian sports justice, with a completely different composition from the one that gave the 15-point sentence in January, ‘Juve’ is second with 69 points and plays this afternoon against Empoli on the penultimate day of Serie A.
The 11-point sanction will leave the team led by Italian Massimiliano Allegri seventh, with 58 points, from European competitions.
in the manner of European League already decided and with just two days to go in the domestic championship, the punishment will leave ‘Juve’ badly shaken and with almost no options to compete in Europe next season.
Source: La Verdad
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