The sports law expert: “The investigation embraces an unprecedented series of irregularities”
“I think it is the most serious investigation that Juventus has undergone in its historyeven more serious than that of Calciopoli”. This is the opinion of the lawyer Matthias Grassani, sports law expert, on Radio Anch’io Sport on Rai Radio1. “The survey embraces a series of irregularities that is unprecedented because the cases of both crime and violation of stock market rules, corporate and sporting rules embrace a range of illegal behaviors which, I repeat, has no precedents. Juventus risks much more than a fine or a penalty, if the allegations are ascertained: when there are alterations of documents, there can be more serious consequences. In case of obtaining registration for a championship with alteration of documents there may be exclusion from the championshiprelegation to last place, the revocation of the scudetto. I believe that since sports justice needs quick times, the proceeding will certainly be completed by the end of the season, and the sanctions will be applied immediately”.
“The en bloc resignation recalls the choice of Juventus in 2006 – continued the lawyer Grassani – and they are a positive sign in a worrying picture. But they are not enough to reduce the extent of the facts, if ascertained, but they speak volumes about the company’s desire to isolate the problem. At the criminal level, I believe that a investigating judge has already pronounced on the non-current nature of the precautionary request for Andrea Agnelli, because they are corporate crimes which can no longer be repeated with the resignation”.
“What is emerging, if ascertained, could as mentioned lead to a heavy penalty and the rule – article 31 paragraph 2 of the sports justice code, which speaks of violations in economic-financial and management matters – establishes that, if there are alterations of documents, therefore private deeds that postpone the payment of salaries, this series of hypotheses of disciplinary violations can lead to consequences greater than the penalty. companies that postpone payments due to players in the 2021/22 season, or even fictitiously renounce, can even lead to exclusion from the championship, relegation to last place and loss of the title of champion of Italy”.
