Earthquake justice in football. Searches and seizures for crimes of tax evasion and false invoicing, by order of the Prosecutor of Naples. The suspects are 64 including former Juventus president Jean Claude Blanc, Napoli president Aurelio De Laurentiis, the executive Adriano Galliani, AC Milan, Lazio president Claudio Lotito the players’ agent Alessandro Moggi and some players, including Ezequeil Lavezzi. The surveys are conducted by the Finance deputy prosecutor Vincenzo Piscitelli and by prosecutors Stefano Capuano, Vincenzo Ranieri and Danilo De Simone.
The prosecutor Neapolitan assumed a “mechanism fraudolelento concocted to steal material tax the state coffers” in the sale of players. The facts relate to the period between 2009 and 2013. Prosecutors athletes, say the investigators, “they were provided to charge fictitiously only to clubs their performance, simulating that the work was made in the exclusive brokerage club, when in fact protected the interests of the athletes were assisted by those agents. “
THE ROBBERY. The investigation of the Prosecutor had left as a result of investigation of robberies committed against some players of Naples and from the interception of a telephone call in which Lavezzi, talking with his agent, Alejandro Mazzoni, seemed to refer to the opening of a bank account in Switzerland in favor of Chavez, another Argentine athlete, Chavez. Mazzoni replied stating that the bill, already opened with HSBC, was closed and that it was moving to open another. From here, the Finance had launched a series of investigations on economic and financial aspects of the players ‘contracts stable Mazzoni.
De Laurentiis: “And’ complete hogwash.” “I’m super quiet, it’s all crap “. So Aurelio De Laurentiis said investigations. “It ‘s not a news commentable, is an old story. Anyway – concludes De Laurentiis – are also things that you invented journalists”.
NAME . The seizure was willing, for amounts of several thousand Euros each, against eight sports agents: Alessandro Moggi, Marco Sommella, Vincenzo Leonardi, Riccardo Calleri, Umberto Calaiò, Adrian Leonardo Rodriguez, Fernand Osvaldo Hidalgo, Inev Alejandro Mazzoni, Edward Luis Rossetto. Thirty-seven corporate executives: Antonio and Luca Percassi, Claudio Garzelli, Giorgio Perinetti, Luigi Corioni, Gianluca Nani, Sergio Gasparin, Pietro Lo Monaco, Igor Campedelli, Maurizio Zamparini, Rino Foschi Daniele Sebastiani, Andrea Della Valle, Pantaleo Corvino, Alessandro Zarb, Enrico Preziosi, Luciano Cafaro, Jean Claude Blanc, Alessio Secco, Claudio Lotito, Marco Moschini, Renato Cipollini, Aldo Spinelli, Adriano Galliani, Aurelio De Laurentiis, Tommaso Ghirardi, Pietro Leonardi (at the time under investigation for fraudulent bankruptcy in the investigation on the failure of Parma Fc) Pasquale Foti, Edoardo Garrone, Umberto Marino, Massimo Mezzaroma, Roberto Zanzi, Giovanni Lombardi Stronati, Francesco Zanotti, Sergio Cassingena, Dario Cassingena, Massimo Masolo. And seventeen players: Gustavo Gerrman Denis, Juan Quintero Ferbando Paniaugua, Adrian Mutu, Ciro Immobile, Matteo Paro, Hernan Crespo, Pasquale Foggia, Antonio Nocerino, Marek Jankoulovsky, Cristian Gabriel Chavez, Ignacio Fideleff, Ezequiel Ivan Lavezzi, Gabriel Paletta, Emanuele Calaiò Cristian Molinaro, Pabon Rios, Diego Miliyo.
In connection with the seizure order, prosecutors have also signed the notice of closure of the preliminary investigation. Compared to the list of recipients of the seizure order signed by Judge Luisa Toscano, the warning does not involve Andrea Della Valle and six players: it’s Emanuele Calaiò, Ciro Immobile, Marek Jankulovsky, Pasquale Foggia, Christian Molinaro, Matteo Paro. For them the looming closure of the file because, after the filing of the seizure order, but before the issue, the law has changed the thresholds of punishment of these crimes. These therefore investigated the seizure order will not be notified.
THE COMPANY. The companies could deduct expenses from taxable debt, getting even the deduction of VAT. Put simply, the prosecutor noted, “the amount paid by the club actually constituted income attributable to the footballer and as a result the company omitted the payment of withholding tax and social security”.
The alleged violations relate to 35 companies A and B. The seizure took against 12 defendants for a total amount of 12 million euro. Simultaneously, the prosecutor closed the investigation for 64 people. All suspects will answer the charges in subsequent steps of the procedure. The seizure order can be challenged by the defense before the court of Review.
LAVEZZI AND CHAVEZ. The investigation that led to the measures now born with the Guardia di Finanza in 2012 in the offices of Naples and the FIGC acquires contracts Ezequiel Lavezzi from Napoli succumbed to PSG, and the almost unknown Argentinian striker Cristian Chavez. Starting from that activity, nine months later, the financiers have occurred in the offices of 41 companies of series A and B to acquire further documentation.
THE “FRINGE BENEFITS” . Investigators spoke of a “widespread phenomenon” in Italian football, namely the “progressive and exasperated” leavening of charges relating to contracts with players. And this was the case detective, would have meant that, over time, would result in a situation of imbalance in economic and financial management which could have prompted the company to make a series of tax offenses. The attention of the prosecution and the GDF has focused on different aspects of the management of the club: the reconstruction of the relationships between companies, agents and players to transfer mode of the latter; examination of contracts with the rules for inclusion in the budgets of the players; by purchase and sale transactions and renewal management of image rights and television rights; by the activity of scouting to fees for players qualified as “fringe benefits.”
THE SEARCHES. This investigation was carried out a series of searches at the homes and other places frequented by their players and their respective prosecutors involved in the investigation. The purpose of the blitz of yellow flames – reads a note from the prosecutor Vincenzo Piscitelli – you find any bank documents and contracts relating to the facts alleged offenses that fraud aimed at tax evasion.
Seizures by the core of the tax police of the GDF are also taking place in Bologna. The investigation involves the current ds Bologna Football, Pantaleo Corvino, but events leading up to his arrival in Emilia. The company Rossoblu is not touched by applicable execution.
MILAN: “FOUNDATION”. The Milan said the investigation: “The story is very marginal and not founded , will find its resolution both in terms of taxation, both from the criminal, in a dutiful storage. “
LAZIO:” A LOTITO INVESTIGATION IS NOT. “” I spoke with Lotito, it has not received any act which shows that is under investigation. No notice of investigation, nothing. He knew all the news today. ” So the lawyer of Lazio, Gian Michele Gentile. “If you investigated? The prosecution did not need to be invented, but today Lotito has had no notification of any measure. We have no signal of any kind, if there had been a search Lotito would have told me.”
THE TESORETTO . According to investigators, there would be a millionaire treasure of some players hidden in banks in Switzerland. The investigation “mother” was in fact on several robberies committed against the Napoli players; from a conversation between the player Ezequiel Lavezzi and his agent Alejandro Mazzoni, January 20, 2012, it was realized that there was something to look into. His prosecutor was referring to Lavezzi some information that the same had asked about opening a bank account in Switzerland in favor of another Argentine footballer, Cristian Chavez. Mazzoni, also under investigation, says the “Pocho” that the foreign account, existing with HSBC, had been closed and that he was working to open another with the Institute Farakin. Listening to this conversation leads investigators to make certain findings on the economic aspects of contracts starting right from that of Lavezzi. In particular on the transfer of “Pocho” to Paris Saint Germain, the police would have found tax evasion record; was in fact a false invoice issued by Alessandro Moggi, the number 18, for a value of over two and a half million Euros in favor of Lavezzi, where stood executions of services rendered by his agent Mazzoni, of about one million and 600 thousand euro. In this world Lavezzi could evade the Italian tax authorities declaring the work of his agent in France where he would pay less and favored Mazzoni he would have earned in his black hand.
TAVECCHIO. “I have read what you have read you and I can not comment on things I do not know.” The president of the Football Association, commented Carlo Tavecchio, from Potenza, where he is attending the inauguration of the new headquarters of the regional committee of Lucan, the developments of the investigation “Offside” the Prosecutor of Naples.
TRANSFER. In the investigation on the world of football emerges the attention of the investigators and prosecutors for a series of contracts. Such as that relating to the transfer or the contractual adjustments of some players. Among the most famous names of those Guglielmo Stendardo Antonio and Nicola Legrottaglie, Adrian Mutu, Ciro Immobile, but also the passage of the player Hernan Crespo
from Chelsea to Inter and Diego Alberto Milito from Genoa to Inter. Fundamental examination of the case by Cristian Gabriel Chavez whose prosecutor Mazzoni and Ezequiel Lavezzi speak on the phone (heard in the context of another investigation by the investigators) and from which it started the whole investigation. In the focus of the investigators the same transfer of Lavezzi at Napoli from athletics San Lorenzo de Almagro and then from Napoli to Paris Saint Germain.
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