A big raid with fifty arrests that makes carpet two criminal organizations involved with sports fraud. The arrests this morning took the dda of Catanzaro and completed by Sco Police, directed by Renato Cortese, reveal a system of football betting piloted within the range of the Pro League.
L ‘ investigation. In handcuffs are over 15 players, 6 presidents of clubs, 8 sports managers and 10 lenders from both Italy, both from the east (Serbia, Kazakhstan, Russia, among others). All dedicated to combine games in Serie D and Lega Pro though, writes the prosecutor Elio Romano, author of a decree of detention of more than 1,200 pages, the acts are also “intrusions even in Serie B in the Italian TIM Cup Serie A “. A glimpse, what emerges from the documents that the prosecutor Romano writes, is “is the pathological consequence of the decline of the old innocent Coupon, now supplanted by betting on individual matches and events even within individual games.”
The suspects. One of the characters involved in the investigation, as well as players and former Presidents and club leaders, are also foreigners, allegedly belonging to the clan Iannazzo, powerful clan of the ‘Ndrangheta operates in the province of Lamezia Terme, and a cop.
They would be more than 30 teams involved in the new police investigation that led to the discovery of two distinct criminal organizations – involving players, coaches, presidents and sports executives – can make up ten league matches of the League and Pro series D. These will be Pro Patria, Barletta, Brindisi, L’Aquila, Neapolis Mugnano, Torres, Vigor Lamezia, Sant’Arcangelo, Sorrento, Montalto, Puteolana, Akragas, San Severo.
The searches. are underway by the police in the offices of several teams of the Pro League and chairs D allegedly involved in various capacities in ‘ investigation into match-fixing. The searches also affect the homes of executives, coaches and players who, according to the survey, would be associated to rig matches. The two distinct organizations discoveries, one operating in the Pro League and one in series D, were able to alter the results and invest money in a matter of betting, both in Italy and abroad.
The shadow of the ‘Ndrangheta and the intercepts. Some of the suspects are accused of having acted to encourage mafias and in fact it is from a survey on’ ndrina of Iannazzo of Lamezia Terme , the protagonist of a police operation last week, which started the investigation. Peter Iannazzo, it is one of the sponsors of the team of Neapolis, favored by the first of the two criminal associations protagonists of the measure. Peter Iannazzo maintain relations with presidents of football clubs to alter the results. This is what emerged from the investigation “Dirty soccer”. It is intercepting some talks Iannazzo that investigators have reconstructed the rounds of match-fixing.
Among those arrested also sports director Ercole Di Nicola, originally from Atri (Teramo), responsible for the technical area of the Eagle football. Has learned from intelligence sources, it was stopped in the first hours of the morning in Venice. Nicola would be one of the key men of the investigation. I have learned there are no suspects among the representatives of the property of the club and among the rest of the leadership. L’Aquila as the company is not involved in the criminal law.
The Lega Pro. The other criminal organization at the center of the investigation revolves around the figure of Fabio Di Lauro , former footballer, “sole representative in Italy of the interests of the” lords “of gambling in Eastern Europe,” says the prosecutor. Di Lauro is particularly linked precisely to Ercole Di Nicola, the sports director of L’Aquila, and Daniele Ciardi, storekeeper of Santarcangelo, both formations militants in the Pro-League Group B.
Back to the referee De Santis. precisely within this context, returns the figure of one of the main protagonists of the investigation on match a few years ago, the so-called Calciopoli. The former referee Massimo De Santis in Serie A, currently working with the beautiful eagle Di Nicola football. And in a game, during which the team of L’Aquila seemed to be over at a disadvantage without remedy, De Santis made a long visit, during the break between the first and sencondo time, all’arbito field. “Did you see all pissed because accustomed evil, in the end everyone angry, the last 10 minutes all angry with the referee, no? … This whistled all, the fouls were whistled and everything,” commented the day after the phone with President Di nicola.
The others arrested. were also arrested the former general manager of Monza Calcio, Mauro Ulizio (now executive Pro Patria ) and the current sporting director Gianni Califano. Their names are included in the survey on match along with those of other sports managers and players of thirty teams in Serie D and Lega Pro, variously accused of criminal association aimed at sporting fraud.
The president of the Italian coaches. “ If the picture is this is a dramatic situation. ” So says Renzo Ulivieri about the investigation. “Probably in situations of this kind would serve an intervention on the management of the championships with more controls adds-That the minor leagues is a really difficult from the economic point of view, you know in what situations pay the club Pro League and Serie D. We must checks because if this is the situation, that seems more broad contours in numbers, we are faced with a situation of absolute emergency. “
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