Juventus is in additional authorized hassle after the Italian soccer federation on Friday charged the membership and 7 former staff administrators with alleged fraud for the way in which they dealt with participant wage cuts through the Covid-19 pandemic.
At the beginning of the pandemic, Juventus stated 23 gamers agreed to scale back their wage for 4 months to assist the membership by means of the disaster. But prosecutors declare the gamers gave up just one month’s wage.
Former Juventus president Andrea Agnelli, former vp Pavel Nedved and former sports activities director Fabio Paratici are amongst these charged.
The expenses will result in one other sports activities trial, after the federation already inflicted a 15-point penalty on Juventus this season for false accounting.
The 15-point penalty was suspended final month on an enchantment to the nation’s highest sports activities courtroom throughout the Italian Olympic Committee and referred again to the soccer federation’s appeals courtroom for a brand new sentence.
Meanwhile, prosecutors in Turin have additionally charged Juventus, Agnelli and 11 others with false communications by an organization listed publicly on the Milan inventory alternate, obstructing watchdog companies, false billing and market manipulation.
Juventus was eradicated from the Europa League semifinals by Sevilla on Thursday, leaving the membership with none titles this season.