The long-awaited date has arrived. On this Wednesday, April 19, 2023, Juventus should be ruled on whether or not to recover the 15 penalty points in the Serie A standings. 90min takes stock.
It is today that the CONI Guarantee College will meet and give its final decision on the penalty for the 15 points inflicted on Juventus. A decisive day to know if the Italian National Olympic Committee will revoke this sanction or not. The session will begin at 2:30 p.m. and it will be open: the answer could already arrive in the evening.
Juventus is accused by the courts of having recorded artificially inflated capital gains in its accounts through numerous transfers. In January, the Federal Court had accepted the request for dismissal of the trial on the subject of added value presented by the prosecutor of the FIGC. The sanction only concerned Juventus, the other clubs had all been acquitted. The result is known to all: 15 points less in the Serie A standings for the Old lady.
On January 30, 2023, the FIGC (Italian Football Federation) Court of Appeal published the reasons for the sanction:“Juventus has committed a serious, repeated and prolonged offence. The new acts prove the intentionality of Juventus. In view of the documentation from club officials of confessional value, unequivocal interceptions and other evidence relating to interventions aimed at concealing documents or manipulating invoices”.
On February 28, Juventus officially filed an appeal with CONI in order to defend themselves. As a reminder, here are the lines of defense of Bianconeri.
– Cancel the decision of the attack for the inadmissibility of the appeal for review of the Federal Prosecutor’s Office (article 63, paragraph 2 of the CGS) and, in any event, for violation of article 63, paragraph 1 of the CGS FIGC ( “Codice di Giustizia Sportiva”, the Code of Sporting Justice), because the documents sent by the Turin Public Prosecutor’s Office do not constitute “new facts” likely to modify the dismissal.
– Cancel the decision for violation of the principles of adversarial proceedings and respect for the guarantees of a fair procedure enshrined in articles 111 and 24 of the Constitution, article 6 of the ECHR (European Convention on Human Rights), art. 2 of the CGS CONI and article 44 of the CGS FIGC. As well as for violation of the rights of defense, due to the absence of links between the accusation disputed in the request and the judgment rendered at the end of the revocation procedure.
– Cancel the contested decision with regard to articles 7 of the ECHR, articles 4, 30 and 31 of the CGS FIGC, for violation of the principle of materiality. Violation of the principle of legality with the finding in judgment of an offense (that of “added value”) not provided for by the sports legal system in the conviction.
– Cancel the conviction for violation of the principles of due process enshrined in article 44, paragraph 1 of the CGS FIGC.
– Cancel the decision for lack of reasons on the penalties imposed in violation of article 12 of the CGS FIGC and in violation of the principle of proportionality in the treatment of the penalty in accordance with articles 3 and 27 of the Constitution.
– Cancel the decision for lack of reasoning as to the existence of a model of organization, management and control of the club, as well as for insufficient reasoning on the alleged absence of documents and internal procedures aimed at developing the criteria for player rating.
If Juve recovers the 15 points, Serie A will be turned upside down. THE Bianconeri would go from 7th to 3rd place in the standings: they would then be 8 points ahead of 6th-placed Inter, 6 over 5th-placed Milan and 3 over 4th-placed Roma.
Massimiliano Allegri’s men would be on track to finish in the top 4 places and qualify for the Champions League next season. Decisive day: place for the decision of the CONI.
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