A series of "serious, repeated and prolonged" violations emerged from elements of "essentially confessional nature". Yesterday, the Court of Appeal of the Italian Football Federation (FIGC) published the 36 pages of reasons for the sentence with which last January 20 had punished Juventus with 15 penalty points in the ranking on the capital gains case. The sanction would be higher than the requests of the Public Prosecutor's Office (-9) because "by taking into account the precedents - it reads - that have concerned accounting alterations lasting for several years or of significant size and intensity (which in the past have led to penalties of oscillating value but, in some cases, also significant), it is considered necessary to determine the sanction with respect to the requests". For the Court, the penalty "must take into account the particular gravity and the repeated and prolonged nature of the violation that the evidentiary framework that emerged is able to demonstrate". This is an "impressive" amount of evidence and demonstrated by the "numerous statements (deriving from interceptions), documents and manuscripts of internal origin to FC Juventus S.p.A. and which all have an 'essentially confessional nature'". Among these is mentioned "the disturbing black book of FP", that is the former executive Fabio Paratici, who is now at Tottenham. In addition, it is noted that the "nodal point of Juventus' behavior" is "the absence of any reliable method". We also read that the Bianconeri executives have gone "to intervene by correcting 'in pen' the invoices received from the other party so as not to reveal the permutative nature of the operation carried out", in reference to the exchange of Akè/Tongya players between the Bianconeri company and Marseille. The situation is different for the other clubs referred and acquitted. For Sampdoria, Pro Vercelli, Genoa, Parma, Pisa, Empoli, Novara and Pescara "there is no specific demonstrative evidence to effectively support the accusation against the companies".
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