Judgment to be delivered in Napoli’s false accounting case involving Osimhen end of April
Serie A giants Napoli currently find themselves in the false accounting case and the decision will be announced by the end of the campaign.
Club CEO Aurelio de Laurentiis spoke to the prosecutor of Roma in what was a chat that lasted about an hour and a half, where De Laurentiis clarified his stance about how the players included in the deal to sign Super Eagles striker Victor Osimhen indeed had the value that Napoli felt they had.
La Gazzetta dello Sport states that all the board members of De Laurentiis’ club are under investigation including his children and wife. None of them will be heard as part of the case, as De Laurentiis was tasked with clarifying their position.
The decision in the saga will arrive by the end of the month, with the club’s offices and the offices of Filmauro already checked and investigated by the authorities. The prosecutors will decide whether to put De Laurentiis on trial or whether to put an end to the story.
When the Partenopei signed the Nigerian striker back in September 2020, the deal was valued at €76,356,819, which included the apparent market value of four players who made the switch to Lille as part of the transfer.
The market value for these players totals around €20m, breaking down as follows: Ciro Palmieri -€7,026,349, Orestis Karnezis – €5,128,205, Luigi Liguori – €4,071,247 and Claudio Manzi – €4,021,762. Investigators allege that these market values were inflated to help Napoli’s books.
Liguori spoke out about the situation back in 2021, adding fuel to the fire, saying: “It wasn’t a deal (Osimhen, ed.) done for us, for our futures. It was for something else. We got pushed out of Napoli with ‘guilt’. Because we didn’t know anything.”
Napoli released an official statement addressing De Laurentiis’ visit to the FIGC prosecutor’s office, commenting: “Aurelio De Laurentiis requested and obtained to be questioned by the Public Prosecutors of the Rome Prosecutor’s Office in the context of the ongoing investigations for the sale of the footballer Victor Osimhen.”
