The FIGC is appealing to the Council of State against the judgement of the Regional Administrative Tribunal which had previously ordered the Federal Prosecutor’s Office to allow consultation of the ‘Covisoc document’ after an appeal by fomer Juventus directors Fabio Paratici and Federico Cherubini.
The pair had made the appeal to the Lazio regional courts, who ruled that a letter sent from the Federal Prosecutors office to Covisoc (The Supervisory Commission on Professional Football Clubs) will have to be handed over to the Juventus defence team. The document reportedly represents the real beginning of the investigation into Juve’s alleged capital gains, and would therefore be able to invalidate the investigation of the federal prosecutor’s office, which took place after the time allowed.
Yesterday evening Paratici and Cherubini were notified of the appeal to the Council of State made by the lawyer Giancarlo Viglione on behalf of the FIGC president Gabriele Gravina, regarding the judgement of TAR that had given 7 days (from last Monday) to the Federal Prosecutor’s Office to make the ‘Covisoc document’ available to the Juventus lawyers.
The public prosecutor’s office had twice denied access to the ‘10940 note’ on the grounds that it ‘is not part of the documentation acquired in the disciplinary proceedings‘. The FIGC has appealed to the Council of State, with a request for suspension, and therefore does not intend to hand over this paper.
Contested to Cherubini and Paratici is the violation of the sporting preliminary ruling, i.e. that the appeal to the state judge is only possible after having exhausted all the degrees of sporting justice.
The ‘Covisoc Charter’ according to Juventus’ lawyers could show that note dated 21 April 2021 should be considered as the date of the establishment of the proceedings and therefore, according to the timeframe of the proceedings, acts of investigation after 14 July 2021 would be unusable. If that were the case, the clubs appeal to CONI would be upheld and their points penalty removed.
