The Italian Football Federation has announced that it has deducted 15 points from Juventus in the national league due to suspicious player transfer transactions and falsified financial records. new evidence from a separate criminal trial on the club’s finances.
All eight other clubs facing Federation sanctions were acquitted, including Sampdoria and First Division Empoli. Juventus can appeal to the Italian Olympic Committee the decision that returns it from third to eleventh place (from 37 to 22 points after 18 games).
The federation also demanded that former chief executive Maurizio Aravabeni be suspended for two years and former sporting director Fabio Parachi, now based in Tottenham, England, for 30 months.
The decision comes at a time when the Italian Federation has reopened legal proceedings that ended last year with the acquittal of Juventus and a handful of other clubs, including league leaders Napoli.
This follows new evidence from a separate criminal investigation into Juventus’ finances by prosecutors in Turin.
Juventus will find out if he and former board members will be prosecuted for false reporting after a preliminary hearing scheduled for March.
Agnelli, along with the rest of the board of directors of the club, resigned from his posts in November last year, and this week Gianluca Ferrero was officially appointed to his place.
