Juventus directors charged with ‘salary manoeuvres’ of Ronaldo, others
The trial is expected to take place sometime in June.
Juventus and seven of their former or current directors including Andrea Agnelli and Fabio Paratici have been charged by the FIGC for their alleged usage of ‘salary manoeuvres’.
Calciomercato.com explains how FIGC prosecutor Giuseppe Chiné has charged the Bianconeri and seven people for multiple acts, including the now infamous agreements to privately pay their players at various points despite publicly stating that these wages had been waived.
The seven former or current directors involved are: Andrea Agnelli, Pavel Nedved, Fabio Paratici, Federico Cherubini, Giovanni Manna, Paolo Morganti and Stefano Braghin. The trial is expected to take place sometime in June.
Chiné has accused the parties of violating Article 4, Paragraph 1 of the Sporting Justice Code on four counts: the salary manoeuvre for the 2019-20 season, the one for the 2020-21 season, the agents’ agreements and the partnerships with other clubs.The FIGC’s explanation of the first salary manoeuvre:
“As regards the 2019-20 salary manoeuvre, Andrea Agnelli and Fabio Paratici are accused of violating art. 4, paragraph 1, of the Sports Justice Code (“principles of fairness, correctness and probity”), for having deposited with the Lega Serie A the agreements to reduce 4 monthly salaries (March, April, May and June 2020) of 21 players (Bentancur, Bernardeschi, Bonucci, Chiellini, Cuadrado, Danilo, De Ligt, De Sciglio, Demiral, Douglas Costa, Dybala, Higuain, Khedira, Alex Sandro, Matuidi, Pjanic, Rabiot, Ramsey, Cristiano Ronaldo, Rugani, Szczesny) and coach Sarri, failing to deposit the economic agreements of integration or recovery of 3 of the 4 waived monthly salaries (April, May, June 2020) already concluded with the same players and with the coach, in the knowledge that the economic agreements containing the salary integrations for the recovery of the waived monthly salaries would be deposited after June 30 2020, i.e. after the closure of the accounting year on June 30 2020, as then actually happened.”
