Massimo Cellino's statements are held up in Report and the Rai broadcast could rewrite the history of Calciopoli.

The president of Brescia, and former patron of Cagliari, was interviewed by Report on perhaps the most murky period of our football, when he was also the vicar of the Lega Calcio. On the story of the false guarantees he said: «I went down to the courtyard, there was an iron bin, I took a little trichlorethylene and then I stuffed the folder of the false guarantees into it. The next day, when the Guardia di Finanza arrived, they searched everything, but the folder was gone. Along with 7-8 other presidents, I was the youngest, I was trying to keep things going. I started cleaning up all the crap that was there, I didn't know where to start. I had a container with all the dossiers: who was registered with a false surety, who was unloaded as Irpef transport. We went to the square below, there was an iron can and we burned everything with trichlorethylene. The next day Finance returned and did not find what it was looking for. And I wasn't even there."

The presenter of Report, Sigfrido Ranucci, explained that the transmission on the air this evening starts « from a flash drive that Luciano Moggi gave us. He had given it to Andrea Agnelli, he also gave it to one of our correspondents and I must say that there are some very interesting interceptions which give an interpretation of what Calciopoli was like , but also make us understand something more. What clearly emerges is that there has been a desire for a transition from a sort of First Republic of football to a Second Republic. And the protagonists we interviewed speak to us of meetings aimed at this transfer of power, of an entrepreneurial political agreement to, in some way, undermine Moggi's power, create another one or in any case make room for other powers that already existed».

Returning to Cellino, the sports manager from Sanluri also refers to a meeting with Berlusconi: « Berlusconi calls me and asks me to apply. I told him that a football president shouldn't be a politician. The championship resumes, immediately three, four referees against devastating. We lost three games in a row in a shameful way. I'm going to Rome to Berlusconi's house to talk, there was also the minister Beppe Pisanu. Still telling me that I had to run… I told him that the referees were massacring me though. Berlusconi looked at Pisanu and said: Minister, call Carraro to tell him that the referees must be fair towards Cagliari. And Pisanu replied, "I'll call Moggi, which is better." Berlusconi went white."

Minister Andrea Abodi also intervenes on the flash drive that allegedly inspired the Report investigation: "I have not received any flash drive, otherwise I would have said it loud and clear, immediately informing the competent authority", says the Meloni Government Sport manager, who denied being one of the recipients of the usb key, containing the interceptions of Calciopoli, which the former general manager of Juventus Luciano Moggi said he had sent to him, as well as to the president of Coni Malagò and that of the FIGC Gravina.

And again, during the Report a "secret dinner" emerged between Massimo Moratti, president of Inter, and the designator of the referees, Paolo Bergamo. It was Bergamo himself who spoke about it. The president of Inter, Massimo Moratti, had invited him after the defeat against Lazio on 5 May 2002 which cost the Nerazzurri the Scudetto. Dinner was in July.

"Moratti - Bergamo said - asked me why the referees were angry with Inter". Subsequently, according to the reconstruction of Report, Moratti turned to the then head of Telecom's security, Giuliano Tavaroli, to have investigations carried out on arbitration favoritism: an "intelligence job" that Tavaroli commissioned from the Polis Distinto company. "But they were illegal investigations and when I found out I sued," commented Bergamo.

During the episode it was pointed out that the legal proceeding that followed was closed by "an agreement", the terms of which remained confidential, which obliges Inter to compensate the people who had been monitored.

(Unioneonline)

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