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This article was published June 10, 2015 at 10:59.
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A search by agents of Digos is in progress at the headquarters of the Football Association as part of an investigation by the Prosecutor of Naples. The investigation is under investigation for attempted extortion Lazio president, Claudio Lotito. In what has been learned the investigation was prompted by the recording of a phone call with Lotito given to investigators by dg Ischia Football, Pino Iodice, in recent months.
The alleged offenses relate to the provision of funding to football clubs. The investigation is conducted by prosecutors in Naples Vincent D’Onofrio, Vincenzo Ranieri, Stefano Capuano and Danilo De Simone and is coordinated by the deputy prosecutor Vincenzo Piscitelli. The search at the headquarters of the Football Association arranged by the prosecutor in Naples is still ongoing in Via Allegri. Claudio Lotito, Lazio president and adviser to the Italian Football Federation, is currently present in his office in the federation.
According to what has been learned, a search was placed in the home of the Roman Lazio president. Searches were also laid against the FIGC president, Carlo Tavecchio and the President of the Lega Pro, Mario Macalli: both are not investigated. The Italian Football Federation has confirmed that Tavecchio was heard “as a person of interest and assured full cooperation by the federation.”
I am Neapolitan Danilo De Simone and Vincenzo Ranieri had opened a dossier in Last February, after the phone call between Iodice, dg Ischia Isolaverde, and Lotito, who is also Federal Councillor, had become public. Lotito had since been referred to the federal court nationwide, and the prosecutor of the Federal Prosecutor of the FIGC had requested a fine of 15 thousand euro for Lotito of Lazio and as many charged for publicly undermined the reputation and integrity of Iodice.
The origin of the case
The story originated on 13 February. That day the dg Ischia football Iodice spread the audio of a phone call with Lotito, secretly recorded in which the Lazio president spoke of his plan to patch up the Lega Pro overcoming the opposition of the clubs that were in favor and against Macalli; He stressed that Beretta in League A and Macalli in Lega Pro count “zero”; He proposed a “cash advance” from the League of former A series C, “but if we do not find an agreement in Lega Pro can never do”; He boasted of having “17-18 votes” out of 20 clubs in the top flight. In the same phone call Lotito expressed heavy doubts about the promotion to Serie A in Carpi, Frosinone and Latina. “I told Abodi (President League of series B, ed): if I bring on the Carpi … if I bring teams that are not worth a c … between us two or three years c’abbiamo not a penny more. If c’abbiamo Frosinone, Latina, who buys them rights? .. “. “With my talent I brought the TV rights to 1.2 billion if we bring Latina, Frosinone, those who buy them rights?”. Lotito’s words aroused strong controversy, intervened the then Secretary to the Prime Delrio said that “a change in football,” while the CONI president Giovanni Malago spoke of “careless words” that “threaten to discredit the world of football” . Reaction also irritated by the FIGC president Carlo Tavecchio “Toni and content of the call is to be censured, as well as the manner in which it was made.” Lotito defended himself talking of “ambush to discredit me.” “My appeal to the negative effects of access to provincial teams the league has been listed as a risk of a possible reduction of TV rights, for the reduction of the users, and certainly not as a desire to prevent the smaller clubs get to compete with the club more. My ratings smuggle these as an attempt to affect the smooth running sports tournament is a real false libelous. “
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