(ANSA) – ROME, NOV 30 – An indictment request is ready to be issued for former Juventus president Andrea Agnelli and almost all the others implicated in a probe into the Turin giant’s accounts, judicial sources said Wednesday.
Agnelli and the Juve board all quit in connection with the probe on Monday.
The prosecutor’s office in Turin has prepared the request for indictment, the sources said.
The measure concerns Agnelli and almost all the other people who in recent weeks had received notice of the closure of investigations against them.
The position of some of them has been eliminated in view of a probable request to shelve the case.
Italian Soccer Federation (FIGC) President Gabriele Gravina on Wednesday warned against “lynching” Juventus after Agnelli quit as chairman this week along with the rest of the board due to problems regarding the Turin giants’ accounts. Prosecutors in the northern Italian city are investigating allegations that the club presented false information to investors about its accounts in recent years.
The accounts of the club, a listed company, have also come under the scrutiny of the Italian stock-market regulator Consob.
On Tuesday the FIGC opened a sporting probe into the case.
“If we want lynching in the street, that’s no problem, but we should calm down because I fear that this issue may concern other subjects too,” Gravina said on the sidelines of the ‘Calcio & Welfare’ conference in Naples.
“I have to stress, out of seriousness and intellectual honesty, that the soccer world is going through moments of tension all over Europe and the world, not just in Italy.
“And I don’t like the idea of punishing some entities, in this specific case Juventus, before a trial has been held.
“We don’t declare subjects guilty and punish them before the investigations”.
Gravina also criticized Spain’s LaLiga for calling on UEFA to punish Juventus.
“We are in close contact with UEFA. I see there have been some gratuitous attacks by those who should focus on getting their own houses in order,” he said.
“I think they are quite out of place”. (ANSA).
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