http://www1.skysports.com/football/news/11854/8791943/Several-Serie-A-and-Serie-B-clubs-raided-at-dawn-over-tax-affairsSeveral Serie A and Serie B clubs raided at dawn over tax affairsLast Updated: June 25, 2013 2:10pm
Prosecutors in Naples have launched an investigation into the tax affairs of 41 Italian football clubs by conducting a series of dawn raids.
The Guardia di Finanza (financial police) spent Tuesday morning executing search warrants at the offices of Serie A clubs including AC Milan, Juventus, Lazio and Fiorentina.
Bari, Siena, Palermo, Pescara and Cesena were among the high-profile Serie B clubs probed while police also requisitioned paperwork from Lega Pro clubs including Gubbio and Portogruaro.
A statement published by the Procura di Napoli also confirmed several "foreign clubs" were under investigation, but the office declined to identify them.
The investigation concerns an alleged criminal conspiracy to avoid paying tax to authorities during the transfer of players.
The prosecutors seek to form a "complete reconstruction of the relationship between clubs and players who have, either directly or indirectly, been involved with football agents Alejandro Mazzoni and Alessandro Moggi".
There are currently 12 football agents, including Mazzoni and Moggi, under investigation.
The latter is the son of former Napoli and Juventus administrator Luciano Moggi, who was involved in the 2006 Calciopoli scandal.＝＝＝＝＝＝＝＝＝＝＝＝＝＝＝＝＝＝＝＝＝＝＝＝＝＝＝＝＝＝＝＝＝＝＝＝＝＝＝＝＝＝＝＝＝＝＝＝＝＝＝＝＝＝＝＝＝＝＝＝＝＝＝＝＝＝＝＝＝＝＝＝＝＝＝＝＝
http://football.thestar.com.my/2013/06/25/italian-police-launch-sick-soccer-serie-a-tax-probe/Italian police launch ‘Sick Soccer’ Serie A tax probePosted on June 25, 2013
NAPLES (Reuters) – Italian finance police seized documents from about 40 soccer clubs on Tuesday as part of an investigation, dubbed "Sick Soccer", into possible tax evasion and money laundering in the buying and selling of players.
Naples prosecutors said that authorities sought documentation from virtually all of Italy’s top flight Serie A clubs, including three listed on the stock exchange – Lazio, AS Roma, and Juventus – last season’s league champions.
Spokesmen for Lazio, Roma and Napoli had no comment, while Juventus officials did not respond to phone calls or email.
The document seizures were part of an investigation into a "criminal conspiracy whose objective was to evade taxes through the systematic issuing of inexistent invoices" in player transfers, the Naples court said in a statement.
The suspicious player transactions "took enormous quantities of cash away from tax authorities", the court said. The probe also includes 12 Italian and foreign player agents, police said.
Italian soccer has been dogged by match fixing allegations in recent years.
Juventus were stripped of two Serie A titles in 2006, and later Italy was the focus of an international match-fixing ring, with Juventus coach Antonio Conte temporarily suspended last year for failing to report infractions.
(Additional reporting by Stefano Bernabei and Massimiliano Di Giorgio in Rome; writing by Steve Scherer.)[ 此帖被啪啪啪啪啪啪在2013-06-26 01:38重新編輯 ]
