Juventus is in additional authorized hassle after the Italian soccer federation on Friday charged the membership and 7 former crew administrators with alleged fraud for the way in which they dealt with participant wage cuts in the course of the coronavirus pandemic.
At first of the pandemic, Juventus mentioned 23 gamers agreed to scale back their wage for 4 months to assist the membership by the disaster. However prosecutors declare the gamers gave up just one month’s wage.
Former Juventus president Andrea Agnelli, former vp Pavel Nedved and former sports activities director Fabio Paratici are amongst these charged.
The fees will result in one other sports activities trial, after the federation already inflicted a 15-point penalty on Juventus this season for false accounting.
The 15-point penalty was suspended final month on an enchantment to the nation’s highest sports activities court docket inside the Italian Olympic Committee and referred again to the soccer federation’s appeals court docket for a brand new sentence.
In the meantime, prosecutors in Turin have additionally charged Juventus, Agnelli and 11 others with false communications by an organization listed publicly on the Milan inventory trade, obstructing watchdog businesses, false billing and market manipulation.
Juventus was eradicated from the Europa League semifinals by Sevilla on Thursday, leaving the membership with none titles this season.