Grassani: No double standards in Napoli and Juventus cases | OneFootball

During the broadcast "Salite sulla giostra" by Raffaele Auriemma on Stile TV, lawyer Mattia Grassani, legal representative of Napoli, was interviewed.

Napoli, Grassani on STILETV: “There is no disparity between the Napoli case and the Juventus case, let me explain how things stand”

These were his statements to the microphones of Carlo Gioia and Raffaele Auriemma: “Indictment for De Laurentiis and Chiavelli? As I am not handling the criminal case, I am not familiar with the documents, so I can only respond regarding the parallel proceeding, the one in the sports court. Between April and May 2022, two levels of judgment were held before the sports justice system for the same facts subject to criminal proceedings, which yesterday saw an important development where the prosecutor requested the conviction of the club and its administrators, receiving a dismissal of the indictment in the first degree and confirmation of the acquittal of De Laurentiis, Chiavelli, and the club by the federal court in the second degree for the same facts that are the subject of the criminal proceedings in Rome. Since the transmission of the documents from the Rome Tribunal to the federal prosecutor did not reveal new facts, behaviors, or evidence contained in the criminal investigation file, the verdict that the sports justice system issued on May 27 in the second degree against Napoli leaves no room for a revocation, which would be the institution that, in the case of Juventus after the acquittal, with new facts emerging, led the prosecutor to request the revocation of the proceeding and Juventus, from being acquitted, received a 10-point penalty. This hypothesis seems that at the current state, the Federal Prosecutor does not intend to pursue it because there are no new elements. There is no disparity in treatment between the Juventus case and the Napoli case because they are two different procedural situations: when the criminal investigation brought new facts to the attention of the federal prosecutor compared to those that had led the sports courts to acquit Juventus, the transmission of these documents from the ordinary court to the sports prosecutor led the federal prosecutor to reopen the Juventus case.”

“In the case of Napoli, the pending investigation in Rome was transmitted to the federal prosecutor: there is nothing different or new compared to what the sports courts had evaluated. From that documentation, there was no systematic and abnormal evaluation of unknown and little-appreciated players. Osimhen and Manolas were worth all that money, and that is why Napoli and Juventus were treated differently. What is the state of health of the Italian referees' association? The commissioner is used as an extreme measure when an entity shows total incapacity to self-govern, surely the federal prosecutor has notified the president of the AIA of a communication of the conclusion of the investigations, which is an informative note. According to the findings of the federal prosecutor's investigation, there are grounds to proceed with an indictment against the number 1 of the AIA with allegations of particularly serious violations. So from Calciopoli 2006 to today, various episodes have unfortunately occurred, such as inappropriate behaviors, alleged pressures, offers of other positions, and let us not forget that a third-tier referee is under house arrest for organizing a network of bettors and determining results by promising money to ensure final results for betting purposes. Calciopoli is the mother of all proceedings, but the state of malaise does not concern the base and the referees who officiate matches in amateur leagues, but unfortunately mechanisms that concern the criteria for designation, evaluation of referees in the top leagues, and I believe that the clubs and fans, who are the true shareholders of football, deserve a rethink of the current refereeing model in which there should be no shadows. And the actions of the leaders, those who represent them, and therefore we speak of the top management of the AIA, the president, must demonstrate being above suspicion, impartial, and independent. We are at the acute phase of the conclusion of the investigations, but according to the federal prosecutor, there are elements to go to trial, and this should make us reflect on the sustainability of the refereeing system. The D'Onofrio case was another dark page, as much adventurous as it was sadly known for the crime of international drug trafficking, another absolutely disastrous page for the credibility of the movement.”

Vincenzo Schiavo

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