The Rome Public Prosecutor's Office is investigating FIGC President Gabriele Gravina. The accusation of self-laundering was formally recorded in the register concurrently with the commencement of the interrogation, which the leader of the Italian Football Federation himself had requested in order to "clarify his position." The confrontation with the detectives lasted nearly an hour and was part of an inquiry initiated by the National Anti-Mafia Directorate into Gravina's alleged illicit actions. The proceedings concern a variety of alleged irregularities, including the assignment of the 2018 tender for the Lega Pro di calcio's thematic channel to Isg Ginko, the nuanced sale of a collection of ancient books in Gravina's possession, and the purchase of an apartment in Milan by the Football Federation's number one. The investigators will carefully review this last item of the file in respect to the subject of territorial jurisdiction and the possibility of transmitting the proceedings to the Milanese prosecutor's office. A calendar of possible future hearings or summonses has yet to be created, and no meetings have been scheduled between Capitoline prosecutors and those in Perugia, where financier Pasquale Striano and DNA prosecutor Antonio Laudati are being investigated for abuse of office and forgery. According to the Umbrian prosecutors' allegations, Striano would have received a "tip-off" on the assignment of the Lega Pro contract and subsequently conducted a series of accesses to obtain additional information concerning Gravina, who has just been heard as a witness in Perugia. The lieutenant of the General Staff, "in agreement with Laudati, would have prepared a report for the magistrates claiming to have received them as information elements from the Salerno Public Prosecutor's Office (a detail that later turned out to be false, ed.) and acquired by the latter as part of its own investigative activities." After discovering Striano's abusive access, the Umbrian investigators considered sending the documents to Rome to verify any wrongdoing, particularly Gravina's role as president of the Lega Pro at the time of the facts. (Photo by Riccardo Pedroli)
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