False in corporate communications and false communications aimed at the market .

These are the accusations that the Turin Public Prosecutor's Office addresses to 16 suspects among the Board of Directors, executives "with strategic responsibilities" and Juventus auditors, after the closing of the investigations on capital gains.

There are also the names of the president, Andrea Agnelli , and the vice president, Pavel Nedved .

For some of the suspects, the subalpine prosecutor had asked for the application of precautionary measures but the judge for the preliminary investigations said no, not recognizing the need. According to the investigators, the Juventus club would have altered the budgets of three years : those approved on 24 October 2019, 15 October 2020 and 29 October 2021, through exchanges between players and the salary maneuver in the pandemic period.

"The exchange transactions, which do not generate financial flows of any kind - explained by the Prosecutor -, are concluded at values established by the parties in an arbitrary manner and with the aim of meeting the budgetary needs of the moment: these transactions were considered fictitious" . According to the accusation, " the capital gains generated by these have been revisited ".

The maneuvers would have led to different numbers between the financial statements presented and the real ones . In the 2018 financial statements, lower loss for the year, equal to 39 million and 896 thousand euros instead of 84 million and 506 thousand; in the 2019 financial statements, a loss of 89 million and 682 thousand euros instead of 236 million and 732 thousand euros; in the 2020 financial statements the loss was 209 million and 514 thousand, instead of 222 million and 477 thousand. Some of the suspects were charged with the crime of fraudulent declaration through the use of invoices for non-existent transactions .

The investigations began in the summer of 2021.

(Unioneonline / D)

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