It seems that Juventus' legal struggle is just getting started. After the resignation of the entire Board of Directors, including President Andrea Agnelli, on November 28, the prosecutor's office in Turin signed an indictment request for thirteen Juventus managers, including Agnelli, vice-president Pavel Nedved, CEO Maurizio Arrivabene, and former sporting director Fabio Paratici. The charges relate to probable 155-million-euro fake capital gains, misleading news about wages, and lower-than-real operational losses. In yesterday's news, however, investigating judge Ludovico Morello denied the prosecutor's demands for preventative measures due to the absence of a danger that the crime would be repeated. The investigations of the Italian court were joined yesterday by those of the UEFA, which declared in a statement that it has begun a probe for breach of Financial Fair Play in response to the claims presented by the Public Prosecutor's Office and Consob. UEFA said that it has reached an agreement with Juventus to have the club fall within the FPF's boundaries based on the financial accounts for the years 2018–2022, and that it maintains the right to cancel the agreement if the financial position for those years should be "substantially different" following the inquiry. And although the stock market seems to have taken the blow, with a comeback in yesterday's closing (+1.93% to 0.2788), certain excerpts from the scams of the interceptions of the inquiry were distributed on all the Italian media. The paragraph about Stefano Cerrato, the finance director, was the one that fans, and reporters found to be most compelling. On October 15, the director commented about the exchange of Marley Akè with Marseille, a young midfielder whose transfer netted Juventus a capital gain - subject to examination - of 8 million euros. "Tanto la supercazzoliamo" (gobbledygook) Cerrato remarked, alluding to Consob. The manager's statements were revealed by Corriere della Sera and mark the start of the flood of conversations between Juventus managers heard by the investigators.
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