Napoli president Aurelio De Laurentiis (defended by criminal lawyer Fabio Fulgeri) has been acquitted of charges of using false invoices for non-existent transactions in the investigation into the salaries of players' agents.
Alessandro Moggi, on the other hand, was sentenced to one year (suspended sentence) for the affair related to the sale of Lavezzi (for which the statute of limitations was declared), for a consultancy provided in Pocho's transfer from Napoli to Paris Saint-Germain, for an alleged false declaration.
In the case of players' agents paid by football clubs, the judges of the seventh criminal section of the Naples court, presided by Sandro Ciampaglia—as reported by Il Mattino—also acquitted Claudio Lotito (defended by criminal lawyers Carlo Di Casola and Gianmichele Gentile); Adriano Galliani (defended by the late Niccolò Ghedini); Andrea Della Valle (defended by lawyer Francesco Picca); and Luca Campedelli (defended by lawyers Luigi Sena and Daniele Ripamonti).
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Seven years ago, the investigation rocked the football world with 64 arrest warrants issued to presidents, agents, and players, as well as searches and seizures by the Guardia di Finanza at football club premises.
The suspects were charged with issuing and using invoices for non-existent services dating back to the period between 2009 and 2013. According to investigators, the fraud mechanism consisted of making the attorneys' work appear to be performed solely in the interest of the companies to which they fictitiously invoiced their intermediation services.
In this way, clubs could deduct from their taxable income the expenses that were for the benefit of their agents, and players could not declare some benefits received from clubs.
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