INVESTIGATION CLOSED
The president of Napoli bought the striker for 71.2 million euros, but valued four players at 21 million
19 gen 2024
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The Rome Prosecutor’s Office has closed the investigation which sees the president of Napoli under investigation, Aurelio De Laurentiisfor theaccusation of false accounting. The proceeding is linked to alleged fictitious capital gains surrounding the purchase of the attacker Victor Osimhen in 2020 from French team Lille (the Nigerian striker moved to Italy for 71.2 million euros, but valued four youth players at 21 million euros) The file had come to the attention of the Capitoline prosecutors for their competence, after the transmission of the documents from Naples: ” The investigation which had been closed with reference to hypotheses of tax crimes has been closed. Now we will read the investigation papers, I remember that today’s case is not an indictment but a closure of investigations. Generally – he explained to Handle Fabio Fulgeri, the defense lawyer of Aurelio De Laurentiis – the false accounting in its original crime hypothesis arises from the idea of defrauding the tax authorities, but in this case this did not happen, it is a hypothesis already excluded”. The act closing the investigations was also notified to the other suspects: these are the members of the Napoli board of directors in office at the time of the events.
Under the magnifying glass, the most expensive purchase of the De Laurentiis era in blue, i.e. the 71.2 million euros spent to buy Osimhen from Lille for which, however, “only” 50 million euros were paid out, valued at around 21 the Greek goalkeeper Karnezis and three young footballers who later disappeared from the football scene: Luigi Liguori, Claudio Manzi and Ciro Palmieri. For the Rome Prosecutor’s Office a “false accounting”.
DE LAURENTIIS’ LAWYER: “NO TAX FRAUD, NOW LET’S PREPARE THE DEFENSE”
“The investigation which was closed with reference to hypotheses of tax crimes has been closed. Now we will read the investigation papers, I remember that today’s case is not an indictment but a closure of the investigation”. This is what was declared to Ansa by F
abio Fulgeri, the lawyer who deals with the defense of Aurelio De Laurentiis regarding the investigation by the Rome Prosecutor’s Office into the president of the Italian club under investigation for false accounting on the purchase of Osimhen from Lille. “Tendively – explains the lawyer – false accounting in its original hypothesis of crime arises from the idea of defrauding the tax authorities, but in this case this did not happen, it is a hypothesis already excluded by the magistrates in Naples. However, it remains in the investigation is underway.
I remember that today is not an indictment, but a notice that the investigations have been concluded and we can now view the documents and then begin to explain our formal defense before the prosecutor. I believe that next week, from Thursday onwards, we will be able to read the documents and we will try to explain our reasons.” The lawyer confirmed that the president of
Naples Aurelio De Laurentiis he will go to the prosecutor’s office “to explain the operation and defend himself. Let’s see what they accuse us of because there is no need to identify the intent to profit, we wonder what Napoli’s advantage would be given that the federal prosecutor’s office has already excluded these advantages, we’ll see “.
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