Napoli, De Laurentiis to stand trial: preliminary hearing set for 2 October | OneFootball

The preliminary hearing involving Aurelio De Laurentiis, president of Napoli, will take place on October 2 in Rome. The hearing is part of an investigation initiated by the Capital Prosecutor's Office regarding certain market operations. The focus of the magistrates' allegations are two specific incidents: the purchase and sale of Kostas Manolas from Roma in the summer of 2019 and the alleged fictitious capital gains related to the purchase of Victor Osimhen from Lille in 2020.

Osimhen Capital Gains and Manolas Case: the Napoli boss among the investigated

As reported by Il Mattino, public prosecutors Lorenzo Del Giudice and Giorgio Orano have requested a trial for false accounting, a hypothesis that concerns the club's financial statements for the years 2019, 2020 and 2021. Not only the Napoli boss: the request for trial also involves the company Calcio Napoli and the CEO Andrea Chiavelli.

The legal proceedings stem from the analysis of financial movements related to two of the most debated operations in the club's recent past. The arrival of Manolas from Roma, in fact, would have involved economic evaluations considered not entirely transparent by the investigators. Even more complex is the Osimhen issue, a Nigerian striker purchased for a total amount of about 70 million euros, within a negotiation that also included the transfer to Lille of some young players from the Neapolitan nursery, evaluated with figures considered disproportionate. The preliminary hearing will serve to determine whether the charges will hold up in court or if the case will be dismissed instead.

Andrea Alati

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