Tottenham’s Director Fabio Paratici has been sanctioned with a 30-match ban from Italian football following his involvement Juventus’ false accounting of transfers.
The former Juventus sporting director is suspended from any involvement in Italian football for the next two-and-a-half years, while Italy’s most successful club have been docked 15 points which will see them drop all the way down to the 10th in the Serie A table.
The now-managing director of football for Spurs has overseen several successful transfers since arriving in North London in 2021, including Cristian Romero, and former Juventus duo Dejan Kulusevski and Rodrigo Bentancur.
This comes after an investigation set in motion by the Italian national football federation concluded that the club had reported misleading losses in their accounting, while also falsely inflating the transfer value of several players.
The Serie A table with Juventus' 15-point deduction 😐 pic.twitter.com/SDIGG8K4ko
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This follows the collective resignation of the entire board at the Old Lady back in November of last year, which includes the now ex-Chairman and one of the leading architects of the European Super League Andrea Agnelli, who’s family have had a majority investment and controlling management over the club since 1923.
The club, who won nine successive Serie A title between 2011 and 2020, had their finances scrutinised last year by prosecutors and Italian market regulators following suspected false accounting and market manipulation.
Juve and all the parties involved will have the opportunity to appeal to the Italian Olympic Committee (CONI), which they intend to do after denying any wrongdoing in relation to the charges.
This latest scandal is compounded further by the fact the club registered losses of £220m last season, which is the highest reported in their history.
This is also not the first time Juventus have been at the centre of high profile wrongdoing – they were found guilty for their involvement in the Calciopoli match-fixing scandal in 2006 and were subsequently relegated to Serie B.
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