The FIGC Court of Appeals has released a 36-page document outlining the reasons why Juventus were given a 15-point penalty following an investigation into ‘plusvalenza’ dealings at the club. The Juve board of directors collectively resigned at the end of last year, shortly before the FIGC prosecutor requested a second trial into the club’s transfer dealings and alleged capital gains.
Italian news agency ANSA, as quoted by Tuttomercatoweb, report that the FIGC Court of Appeals applied the points penalty on the grounds that Juve “have committed a sporting disciplinary offence, taking into account the seriousness and the repeated and prolonged nature of the violation.”
The club are being held to account thanks to “the documentation from the club’s directors, with confessional value and from the relative manuscripts, the unequivocal interceptions and the further evidence relating to the concealment of documentation or even manipulation of invoices.”
As far as the sanction is concerned, the Court has taken into account the particular gravity and the repeated and prolonged nature of the violation and the intensity and diffusion of awareness of the situation in the conversations between the managers of FC Juventus S.p.A.
“In the face of a picture of the facts radically different due to the impressive amount of documents received from the Turin Public Prosecutor’s Office that highlighted the intentionality underlying the alteration of the transfer operations and the relative values.”
Juventus are now free to appeal the decision to CONI.
