Juventus of Turin finally filed an appeal before the Italian Olympic Committee (CONI) to try to dismiss the 15-point penalty in the current season of Serie A, derived from the “capital gains case” in which the ‘capital gains’ was found guilty. Vecchia Signora’ of having committed irregularities in their income statements.
Specifically, the ‘Bianconero’ team was accused of increasing the market value of footballers to generate higher income from their transfers and balance balances in this way, which led to the reduction of 15 points this season that sent him from third to tenth place in the table.
Now Juventus has filed an appeal with the CONI Sports Guarantee Association, in which it requests that said sanction be revoked.
It should be remembered that on January 30, the Court of Appeal of the Italian Football Federation (FIGC) indicated that the 15-point penalty imposed on ‘Juve’ for the generation of capital gains to balance balance sheets, was due to “the severity and the reiterated and prolonged nature of the offence”.
From the aforementioned date, the Turin team had a period of 30 days to present their appeal, something they finally did this Tuesday.
Now it will have to wait until March 27, when the preliminary hearing will be held within the framework of the ‘Prisma’ investigation, which investigates whether the Italian club made fictitious capital gains and irregular salary maneuvers with some of its players.
The Justice investigates that Juventus has increased the real market price of its players to obtain a greater benefit in its subsequent sale (case of capital gains) and a deferral of payments to certain players during the 2020 financial year that were not included in the balance of the aforementioned year (falsification of accounts).
With information from EFE.