Football and false invoices, all acquitted except for Moggi jr
In January 2016, the prosecutors of the Naples prosecutor's office pointed the finger at "an ingrained system" for evading taxes
Alessandro Moggi, on the right, together with his father Luciano (Archive)
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Flurry of acquittals for the big names in Italian football from allegations of tax irregularities in the Off Game process.
The seventh criminal section of the court of Naples has acquitted all the accused presidents or former presidents: Aurelio De Laurentiis, Claudio Lotito, Adriano Galliani, Andrea Della Valle and Luca Campedelli. The footballer Ezequiel Lavezzi was also acquitted. The only sentence for Alessandro Moggi: one year, suspended sentence, for not having accounted for an invoice relating to a consultancy for the sale of Lavezzi.
The sentence comes seven years after the opening of an investigation caused a sensation in the world of football. In January 2016, the prosecutors of the Naples prosecutor's office pointed the finger at "a deeply rooted system" to evade taxes created, according to the indictment, by 35 A and B clubs and a hundred managers, football players and sports agents.
The alleged offenses would have been linked to market operations, through a system which on the one hand would have stolen money from the state coffers and on the other hand favored clubs, players and above all their agents.
A theorem denied by today's sentence: Alessandro Moggi himself was convicted of only one of the charges, linked to the sale of Lavezzi for a consultancy provided in the transfer of Pocho from Naples to Paris Saint Germain. His lawyers are ready to appeal. "I'm super calm, it's all fluff," commented the president of Napoli Aurelio De Laurentiis on the day of the news of the maxi investigation.
