Italian football scandal 2013
The Italian football scandal of 2013 was a scandal of player transfers, balance sheet falsification and cartel formation, which various clubs are accused of by the Italian public prosecutor. The background to this was suspicions by the Naples Public Prosecutor's Office against several player agents of evading taxes and falsifying balance sheets on transfers, and the handling of television and image rights was also criticized.
The starting point of the scandal was a police search of the offices of SSC Naples and the Italian football association FIGC carried out at the beginning of October 2012 . After evaluating seized documents relating to player transfers, the financial police carried out raids on 41 Italian clubs. Affected were among others Juventus Turin , AC Milan , Inter Milan , AS Roma , Lazio Rome and AC Florence . A total of 18 out of 20 Serie A clubs, eleven Serie B clubs and twelve clubs from the other Italian leagues were examined. Several foreign clubs are also said to have been affected by the investigation.
The investigations were directed primarily against the player agents Alessandro Moggi and Alejandro Mazzoni , and eleven other players' agents were also investigated. The focus was primarily on contracts with players of South American origin (e.g. Ezequiel Lavezzi ), but the transfers of domestic professionals such as Antonio Nocerino were also the object of the investigation. A total of 50 contracts were objected to. The contracts of Bundesliga professionals Massimo Oddo and Cristian Molinaro were also examined.
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Julius Müller-Meiningen: The next scandal is looming. In: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung. Werner D'Inka, Berthold Kohler, Günther Nonnenmacher, Frank Schirrmacher, Holger Steltzner, June 25, 2013, accessed on June 28, 2013 .
- ↑ Tom Mustroph: Illicit financial tricks in Italian football. In: Zeit Online. Zeit Online GmbH, June 26, 2013, accessed on June 28, 2013 .