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About soccer scandal by Juventus,cheaters in italian football...

(ANSA) - Rome, May 16 - Following is a fact box on possible charges facing ex-officials, referees, players and others in several probes into Italian soccer .

NAPLES PROBE Charge: Setting up a criminal organisation to control Italian soccer for Juventus and other clubs linked to the network, making huge illegal profits, rigging the 2004-2005 Serie A season Under investigation: Juventus ex-general manager Luciano Moggi, Juve ex-CEO Antonio Giraudo, ex-soccer federation (FIGC) vice president Innocenzo Mazzini, ex-referee selectors Paolo Bergamo and Pierlugi Pairetto, No.1 referee Massimo De Santis Charge: Taking part in said organisation Under investigation: Moggi and 40 others including the above plus FIGC ex-president Franco Carraro, FIGC secretary Francesco Ghirelli, eight referees, 11 linesmen, Italian Refs Association chief Tullio Lanese, Fiorentina Chairman Andrea Della Valle, Fiorentina Honorary President Diego Della Valle, Lazio Chairman Claudio Lotito, Milan director Leonardo Meani, Finance Guard General Francesco Attardi, RAI state TV journalist Ignazio Scardina Clubs suspected of involvement: Juve, AC Milan, Fiorentina, Lazio Charge: Sporting fraud (fixing 19 matches) Under investigation: Moggi, others Charge: Abduction and threats, for locking referee Gianluca Paparesta and linesmen into locker room after November 6, 2004 Reggina-Juventus game, which Juve lost Under investigation: Moggi, Giraudo Charge: Embezzling public funds by illegal use of police cars to drive and escort Moggi and associates around Rome Under investigation: Moggi, his son Alessandro, policemen Fabio Basili and Pierlugi Vitelli ROME PROBE Charge: Illegal competition, violence, threats involving GEA player agency Under investigation: Moggi, his son and GEA chief Alessandro, GEA partner Chiara Geronzi (daughter of Banca di Roma chief Cesare Geronzi), GEA CEO and player agent Franco Zavaglia PARMA PROBE Charge: Illegal sports betting Under investigation: Juventus and Italy goalkeeper Gianluigi Buffon and three ex-Juve players: Antonio Chimenti, Enzo Maresca, Mark Iuliano TURIN PROBE Charge: False accounting Under investigation: Giraudo Photo: Clockwise from top left: Moggi, Giraudo, Mazzini, Bergamo, De Santis, Pairetto

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Prosecutors probe 41 people and top Serie A teams (ANSA) - Rome, May 12 - The scandal which is rocking the foundation of Italian soccer snowballed on Friday as prosecutors widened their probes and police searched the headquarters of the soccer federation and referees' association .Naples prosecutors said they were investigating 19 matches from the 2004-05 Serie A season for suspected match-fixing and announced they had informed 41 people they were under investigation .The news came as carabinieri police swooped on the headquarters of the Italian Soccer Federation (FIGC) and the Referees' Association (IAI) to seize documents and other evidence. Police later searched the home of former FIGC president Franco Carraro, who resigned on Monday .Carraro, Juventus General Manager Luciano Moggi and CEO Antonio Giraudo as well as top referees and officials from Serie A clubs Milan, Lazio and Fiorentina were among the 41 being probed, chief prosecutor Giandomenico Lepore said .According to Italian legal procedures, prosecutors must formally notify suspects they are being investigated but it does not necessarily mean they will then be indicted .Carraro, former head of the Soccer League and chairman of Milan, stressed this point, telling reporters he had been probed several times but had always been cleared ."I'm not worried because I know I have always acted with integrity," said Carraro, adding that he was certain he would be able to "prove my honesty". The 41 individuals, including the owner of Fiorentina, footwear tycoon Diego della Valle, are suspected of fraud, including sporting fraud, embezzlement and being a part of a criminal association .Magistrates said that not all were suspected of involvement in every charge. According to the prosecutors, the "kernel of power lurked" in Juventus, Milan, Lazio and Fiorentina although other clubs are suspected of having taken part in illegal activities .Moggi, who is also being probed by Rome prosecutors, will face questioning on Monday .The prosecutors are also investigating Moggi and Giraudo for allegedly "detaining" a referee and his two assistants at the end of Juve's match against Reggina in November 4, 2004. The two are suspected of locking ref Gianluca Paparesta and two assistants in a changing room and berating them for having failed to "favour" Juve, which lost the match 2-1. Rome prosecutors are meanwhile probing GEA World, the footballers' agency run by Moggi's son, for alleged use of "threats and violence" to coerce players and clubs into using the company's services and abuse of a "dominant position" on the market .Prosecutors in Turin, Parma and Perugia are running separate investigations into other allegations of sporting fraud and illegal betting .Hours before the entire board of directors at Juventus board of directors resigned on Thursday, judicial sources confirmed that Giraudo was being probed in Turin for alleged false accounting .The scandal broke last week with the publication of wiretaps ordered by Turin prosecutors, recorded as part of a doping probe before and after the start of the 2004-5 season .In them, Moggi asks referee-appointer Pier Luigi Pairetto to name "good" refs for three pre-season friendlies and chats with him about the refs assigned to two Champions League matches .The content of the tapped conversations was explosive as it seemed to confirm Italian fans' age-old suspicions that the refs favour Juve and cast a shadow over the 29th Serie A title the team is expected to pick up on Sunday .With a three-point advantage over AC Milan, the scudetto-holders just need a draw from Sunday's clash with Reggina to win the club's 29th Italian league title .The champions could face the prospect of relegation to Serie B, among other penalties, if the allegations being levelled against them are proven. The hullabaloo raised by the front-page coverage of the scandal prompted widespread calls on Friday for a sweeping overhaul of Italian soccer .Roma striker Francesco Totti, one of the country's most popular players, urged officials to "clean the slate." "We've got to make some important decisions and start from scratch," he said .FIGC Deputy Chairman Giancarlo Abete, who has been tasked with running the federation, said he agreed with politicians who are demanding a parliamentary inquiry on domestic soccer .It would be "positive to find out exactly what happened and would ensure the maximum transparency". "It's a terrible thing," said outgoing Premier and AC Milan owner Silvio Berlusconi .Premier-elect Romano Prodi, whose government is expected to take office next week, suggested that outgoing Cabinet Undersecretary Gianni Letta be appointed to oversee FIGC .Letta, a former journalist and close aide of Berlusconi, is respected in the centre left for his consummate negotiating abilities

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NO place will be available for cheaters in my ideal world!
ebt cheaters or football cheaters.
I hate who wins laughing about loosers ...
i laugh when cheaters are caught!

[groentje]

Phoe, football

[JP Simões]

The champions could face the prospect of relegation to Serie B, among other penalties

How is the feeling in Italy? Do Italians really think that will happen? It'd be a shame...

[lozingaro]

NO place will be available for cheaters in my ideal world!
ebt cheaters or football cheaters.
I hate who wins laughing about loosers ...
i laugh when cheaters are caught!

Honour and Glory: INTERNAZIONALE F.C. MILAN




...the other side of the medal...
the soccer who win without......drugs or other
the italian football is this!

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The champions could face the prospect of relegation to Serie B, among other penalties

How is the feeling in Italy? Do Italians really think that will happen? It'd be a shame...

if u cheat in 1match you go to serie B according to jurisprudency...the did that for years!adding 100 others 'tricks'...so i hope the name Juventus will be banished from football!
this scandal is too big,maybe from abroad u cannot understand but they threated,cheated,4 many years!
is not MAFIA?

INTER FC IS THE ONLY CLEAN CLUB OF GREATEST HERE,with millions of euros spent nothing wun...this is a shame!only cheaters wun!

[JP Simões]

INTER FC IS THE ONLY CLEAN CLUB OF GREATEST HERE,with millions of euros spent nothing wun...this is a shame!only cheaters wun!

Is AC Milan corrupt too

[lozingaro]

INTER FC IS THE ONLY CLEAN CLUB OF GREATEST HERE,with millions of euros spent nothing wun...this is a shame!only cheaters wun!

Is AC Milan corrupt too

yyyyyeeessssssssss!!!!
the devil is dead!
the sacred jails is open and wait much of "persone perbene" ( you can read some names..."big lucky, mr. tods and a lots of people).

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INTER FC IS THE ONLY CLEAN CLUB OF GREATEST HERE,with millions of euros spent nothing wun...this is a shame!only cheaters wun!

Is AC Milan corrupt too

milan ac appeared in some conversations...

[lozingaro]

INTER FC IS THE ONLY CLEAN CLUB OF GREATEST HERE,with millions of euros spent nothing wun...this is a shame!only cheaters wun!

Is AC Milan corrupt too

milan ac appeared in some conversations...

più che viva bossi, viva castelli, che ha fatto un culo così alla turco, l'altra sera a porta a porta!
( i cannot traslate this word, because someone take me and walk in the jail!)

i will to see in the next year one new vision of the italian' soccer!
i hope to see an a true justice for all, and not only for four friends...
you are understand me? (...juventus and company in the second or third division are a lies! i wait this.)

".....io, federigo aranthes, vi dico... ed io ritornerò"

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uventus, Lazio and Fiorentina relegated to Serie B
(ANSA) - Rome, July 14 - A sports tribunal in Rome brought an abrupt end to jubilation over Italy's World Cup success on Friday by throwing three of the country's top clubs out of Serie A for match-fixing .

The five-man panel resisted calls for lenience and on Friday sent Juventus, Lazio and Fiorentina into Serie B with points penalties and allowed Milan to stay in the top flight, but with a hefty penalty .

Lazio fans gathered in protest outside the Rome hotel where the sentences were being read. Similarly in Turin, hundreds of Juventus fans gathered near the team's headquarters .

Some 25 individuals who have been accused of sporting fraud and unfair conduct learned their fates also. They include club executives, federation officials, referees and linesman. The tribunal ignored calls for leniency or even a full amnesty which came from some fans and parts of the political world, especially after Italy's triumph in the World Cup last week .

After a record week spent considering verdicts in a room at Rome's Olympic stadium, the federation panel's chief judge Cesare Ruperto finally read out the verdicts at 21.00 local .

Juventus, the Turin team whose executives were judged to be at the heart of the scam, came off worst. As well as relegation, the club was told it must start next season with a 30-point penalty. This means the club will remain in Serie B for at least two seasons and be effectively barred from the Champions League for three .

Juve, the 'grand old lady' of Italian soccer, was also stripped of the championship titles it won in 2005 and 2006. Fiorentina and Lazio, also demoted, were given 12 and 7-point penalties for next season respectively. Although spared demotion, Milan was docked 44 points from its total last year, meaning that, barring appeals, it will be excluded from the Champions League. In addition it will start next season at -15 points .

The controversial trial focused on alleged attempts by club executives to interfere with the selection of referees and linesmen. According to federation prosecutor Stefano Palazzi, compliant match officials could be relied on to steer matches thanks to apparently minor decisions .

He had asked the tribunal to send down Serie A champions Juventus to the third division for the club's alleged role in the scandal and to relegate AC Milan, Lazio and Fiorentina to Serie B .

The prosecutor had also called for tough sanctions for the club executives and FIGC officials involved in the scandal .

Former Juve general manager Luciano Moggi, the alleged mastermind behind the network set up to steer matches in some clubs' favour, was barred from any role in Italian soccer for five years. The same sentence was handed to former managing director Antonio Giraudo .

Adriano Galliani, former Soccer League chairman and AC Milan's no.2, was barred for a year .

Speaking before the sentences were read out, Italian Premier Romano Prodi said all those found guilty should pay, dismissing calls for an amnesty to reward the country's World Cup triumph .

"If the two things were to be confused, it would not give the right example," he said. Clubs and officials now have five days to file their appeals. The FIGC wants to wrap up the sporting disciplinary process before UEFA holds the draws for next season's European club competitions at the end of the month .

Fedele Confalonieri, head of Mediaset, the Berlusconi-owned television company, repeated claims on Friday that AC Milan had been drawn into the match-fixing scandal for reasons that were "mainly political" .

Milan is owned by Berlusconi, who has said the probe was aimed at weakening him politically .

The scandal broke in May when telephone wiretaps gathered by Neapolitan prosecutors, featuring comprising conversations between club executives and referees, were published in Italian newspapers .

Four separate criminal probes into the scandal are expected to reach the trial stage later this year .

State prosecutors are looking at different elements of the alleged web of corruption, which also extends to illegal betting, false accounting, doping and transfer fraud .

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Juventus, Lazio en Fiorentina naar Serie B


ROME - De Italiaanse clubs Juventus, Lazio Roma en Fiorentina degraderen naar de Serie B. Dat heeft het sporttribunaal dat de fraudezaak in het Italiaanse voetbal onderzoekt vrijdag besloten.

Naast de degradatie krijgt landskampioen Juventus ook 30 punten aftrek bij de start van het seizoen. Bovendien zijn de club uit Turijn de laatste landstitels afgenomen. Fiorentia begint het volgende voetbalseizoen met twaalf punten minder, Lazio met zeven.

Milan

AC Milan ontsnapt aan rechtstreekse degradatie en blijft in de Serie A. De club, waar Clarence Seedorf speelt, mag echter niet in de Champions League voetballen volgend seizoen. AC Milan wordt 15 punten in mindering gebracht in de nieuwe competitie in de Serie A.

De clubs hebben drie dagen de tijd om tegen de beslissingen in beroep te gaan. Daarna volgt op 24 juli een definitieve uitspraak.

De betreffende clubs worden verdacht van het beïnvloeden van de aanstellingen van scheidsrechters. Met name Juventus zou, door toedoen van voormalig directeur Luciano Moggi, hier nadrukkelijk van hebben geprofiteerd. De uitspraak van het sporttribunaal komt precies vijf dagen nadat Italië in Duitsland de wereldtitel won. Bij de betrokken clubs spelen veel internationals.


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