The bis process for capital gains is reopened and only Juventus pays. And with a sting: - 15 points in the standings and all the executives convicted. For the Lady it is a new Calciopoli : 24 months for Agnelli and 30 for Paratici, 16 months for Cherubini, 8 months also for Paolo Garimberti.

After more than four hours of deliberation, the Federal Court of Appeal not only accepted the request to put the Juventus club back in the dock, but also increased the penalties that the head of the prosecutor Giuseppe Chinè had asked for.

It is a real tsunami on the standings (Allegri's bianconeri drop from third to tenth place) and on the club's future, now awaited by a possible second sporting trial , derived from the new Prisma investigation documents, in addition to the possible sanctions threatened by UEFA for the violation of financial fair play . In the meantime, the new Juve after Agnelli finds itself serving penalties for the old troubles: and it was only the first of the days of the judgment, the one in which the Federal Court of Appeal was called to evaluate the reopening of the sporting trial which involved in addition to Juve, eight other clubs and which ended with the acquittal last May.

For Samp, Genoa, Parma, Empoli, the old Novara, Pisa, Pescara and Pro Vercelli no convictions, as in the first proceeding. Chinè's had already appeared to be a tough fist, who had opened the hearing with all the participants remotely: the sporting prosecution had in fact asked for 9 penalty points for the black and whites, and 16 months of inhibition for Andrea Agnelli (for two days ex club president), 20 and 10 days for Paratici, 10 months for Cherubini, 12 for all the other directors. "The penalty must be afflictive, Juventus in the standings must now finish behind Roma, outside the European Cup area," the prosecutor motivated the request during the indictment. "Appeal inadmissible", the words of the Bianconeri's defense in the absence of "new facts" compared to the trial already celebrated months ago and which had acquitted everyone. The Juventus lawyers relied on the legal principle according to which «no one can be prosecuted or criminally convicted by the jurisdiction of the same State for a crime for which he has already been acquitted or convicted».

The FIGC Prosecutor's Office, defeated in the first round on the capital gains affair, had wanted to reopen the proceeding in the light of the Prisma criminal investigation of the Turin Prosecutor's Office , the one crammed with interceptions, documents, and the black book of FP, with market operations of the former ds Paratici precisely. "None of the elements valued by the federal prosecutor's office" in the context of the market operations "demonstrates the existence of an artificial over-evaluation of the rights to the sports performances of the players in the aforementioned operations , thereby rendering today's appeal completely unfounded", he supported Juve's defence. Who had more than one questioning with the Public Prosecutor during the hearing on the use of the capital gains: Chinè underlined that according to his indictment the contested ones served to cover the losses; the defenders of the black and white club retorted that the capital gains in question, for 60 million, represent only 3.6% of revenues . In particular, they underlined, in the years to which the prosecution refers, the company called 700 million in capital increases, over three years it had revenues of 1,675 million and out of a total of 323 million in capital gains, the 60 contested by Chinè are the 18% of the total and, precisely, 3.6% of revenues .

Juve sinks in the standings (The bianconeri, who will appeal to the Coni guarantee college, thus drop to 22 points in the standings, on a par with Bologna and Empoli and 12 points from the Champions area at this point occupied by Lazio, Rome and Atalanta) and, between criminal trials (there is also the story of false accounting) he also risks in Europe.

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