Maurizio Zampetti, former president of Foligno Footballis at the center of a judicial investigation involving six other people, including his brother Claudio. The accusations concern several episodes of bankruptcy connected to companies attributable to the Zampetti family. According to the investigation documents, the brothers acted within a “criminal plan” with the aim of covering up the economic collapse of their companies, draining liquidity and implementing distractions of sums to the detriment of creditors.
The companies involved include, in addition to Foligno Calcio, several other companies. The investigators maintain that the Zampetti brothers, together with the other defendants, created new companies or took over others, using fictitious preliminary contracts e intragroup operations to cover losses and delay the emergence of financial distress.
A crucial point of the accusation is the theft of almost 6 million euros from the coffers of Koim Srl, a company previously known as Zampetti Costruzioni. Of this figure, 734 thousand euros would have been diverted to Foligno Calcioa team chaired by Maurizio Zampetti from 2002 to 2013. The irregularities date back to the period between 2010 and 2012during which, despite the presence of missed tax payments, sponsorships were still carried out for more than that 434 thousand euros and waived credits for further ones 300 thousand euros.
The charges also extend to the period between 2007 and 2011when the Zampetti brothers, together with other defendants, would have distracted 504 thousand euros to cover sponsorship costs in favor of Foligno Calcio. These operations were deemed unjustified by the investigators, contributing to the economic collapse of the companies involved.
The defense lawyers contested the accusations, arguing that the intra-group transactions carried out by the Zampetti family companies they do not constitute fraudulent bankruptcy. According to the defense, technical advice would demonstrate what such operations would have entailed compensatory benefits which would exclude the type of crime contested by the Prosecutor’s Office.
The request was made for all the defendants indictment. The court will determine whether the financial and corporate operations carried out by the Zampetti brothers actually constitute fraudulent bankruptcy or whether, as the defense claims, these are simple intra-group transactions with no criminal relevance.
