ROME – mail, sms, but even messages of any kind of system of “matching information”. Skype finally to Whatshapp. Last Friday, the patrol Guardia di Finanza in Milan who knocked the offices of top executives of Mediaset, Giorgio Giovetti (head of sports rights Italian television networks) and Marco Giordani (number one RTI) had orders to collect any trace can the alleged secret agreement for the division of TV rights to Serie A in the period 2015-2018. The two senior managers of Alfa have found it to be investigated by Milan prosecutors for complicity in bid rigging.
A bargain at just under one billion euro (930 million); the pillar – to quote recent prophetic words of the president of the FIGC, Carlo Tavecchio – which supports the entire system; the main, if not only, source of supply of individual companies. That thing, it turns out now, even if you always suspected, would be handled by the Football League illegally.
Of this have convinced the magistrates in Milan, Roberto Pellicano, Paolo Filippini and Giovanni Polizzi , which they sent the financiers in the League to take all cards on the procedure for allocation of that race. That was only the first stage of the raid of the military, who shortly after was a knock at the headquarters of Infront – the advisor of the League, as well as the great director of the whole operation – to search the president Marco Bogarelli, and councilors Joseph Ciocchetti and Andrea Locatelli . And finally, in Cologno Monzese, in the heart of Mediaset. But what prompted the judges to try these tests?
The answer is contained in the search warrant: “The management of Infront, in the course of assigning licenses of audiovisual rights for sports events ( TV rights 2015-18, ed), colluding with executives RTI, has altered the relevant contract and the fair and impartial execution of the competition, in particular in violation of the standards of transparency and fair competition in favor of competitors RTI (Mediaset). ” If you were to leave for a moment the words plastered the central passage of the decree, the translation is more mundane than the “cake” of rights would be distorted to favor the company founded by Silvio Berlusconi. From which, it seems a case comes just what seems to be the deus ex machina of this whole affair, Marco Bogarelli.
When his Infront, in 2008, knocked at the doors of the Football League, in a few They knew who those managers were so capable and prepared. Surely he knew Adriano Galliani who had worked together at the time of Fininvest first, and then Media Partners, the company that Bogarelli, Locatelli and Ciocchetti founded in the 90s by capitalizing on experience gained in Cologno.
The boys Galliani them chiamava- not. Improperly. Because the relationship, at least one between Bogarelli and CEO of AC Milan, has always been much more equal than it said that expression. For this reason, many people, especially to Sky, storsero nose when Infront was chosen as advisor League (whose president was Galliani) for the TV rights. Feared favoritism to Mediaset.
Fears that proved unfounded. The auction was won by Sky, however, relying on some gray areas of the law Melandri Bogarelli convinced the League to not assign those rights as well as results from the auction, but to allocate them between Sky and Mediaset, changing the pattern of the a posteriori ‘original assignment.
But how did Bogarelli to convince the Football League that, among other things, as a result of that division has also gained less? And here comes the second part of the investigation of the Milan prosecutors. The financiers after the visit to Mediaset in fact went to visit at the premises of Genoa and Bari Soccer and in that of the MP & amp; Silva, Richard Silva, manager of rights abroad and he considered man close to Fininvest. They were looking for evidence of some improper payments made by Infront and the same Silva, to help the two clubs in financial difficulties to circumvent supervision of Covisoc and subscribe to the league without problems (hence the investigation obstacle to the supervisory authority). The prosecutor in motivating this search seems to describe what Infront as a “system”.
The company – write the pm- over the role of advisor for the League, handles the marketing of some of the most important teams football, among them “the AC Milan, Lazio, Genoa and Sampdoria.” Or, Adriano Galliani, Claudio Lotito, Enrico Preziosi and Massimo Ferrero. A quartet of clubs, and presidents, who represent the core of the bank’s institutional Bogarelli. Core around which, as the chronicles tell exactly, is regularly catalyze dozens of other small and big clubs – often in financial difficulty, such as Bari.
The same club that, all together, have voted Maurizio Beretta President of the Confederation of the ball, Carlo Tavecchio Football Federation president. The same people who vote for the vote, the auction in the auction, they find themselves always all agree.
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