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Neither Juventus nor Luis Suárez are currently being formally investigated in the matter of the Italian test that the Uruguayan striker gave him in Perugia. The investigation resulting from the interceptions of the Guardia di Finanza has reconstructed the alleged motives, protagonists and intermediaries, roles and persons responsible for what happened on September 17 at the University for Foreigners of Perugia. The crime foreseen is corruption and it would arise following a fundamental aspect of the trend that investigators have focused on for now: the agreement that would have been ratified between a lawyer for the Juventus club and the general director of the University of Umbria.
Regarding the possibility of initiating proceedings against the company by the Federal Prosecutor’s Office for some sporting offense, it is still a hypothesis on which the FIGC body reserves its opinion. A file has been opened, but it will only proceed after verifying the degree of involvement of the different people involved and when there are sufficient elements to clarify whether the company was actually aware of the agreements signed with the University.
What is the provision of the Code of Sports Justice related to the case in question? It is subsection 7 of article 32 on Duties and prohibitions regarding affiliation, transfers, assignments and corporate controls (here the extract).
Violation of federal membership rules, carried out by false citizenship certificate, constitutes a disciplinary offense. The companies – he says – as well as their administrators, members, shareholders and non-shareholders in accordance with art. 2, paragraph 2, who directly carry out or attempt to carry out or allow others to carry out acts aimed at obtaining false or otherwise altered citizenship certificates or documents to circumvent the rules on entry into Italy and the registration of non-Italian players The EU is liable by applying the sanctions mentioned in paragraphs 8 and 9. The same sanctions are subject to the same sanctions for clubs, directors and partners if players under a false name or who do not have the right to participate in sports competitions participate.
What is Juve at risk? From lighter penalties (such as fine, inhibition, disqualification) to much more serious that entail “Penalty of one or more points in the ranking; descent to last place in the ranking of the corresponding championship or any other mandatory competitive competition; exclusion from the relevant championship or any other mandatory competitive competition; prohibition of registering players up to a maximum of two transfer periods “. Based on the precedents – the case of the passport issue involving Álvaro Recoba and Inter – assuming Juventus’ involvement and responsibility is proven, the most likely sanction is a very heavy fine.
What is the position of the club? Juventus is calm both because the alleged reports would have been exclusively informative – as indicated in the Corriere della Sera – and because it is not responsible for having organized Suárez’s trip or the player’s own interrogation. In fact, to further support the position, reference is made to an important bureaucratic “detail”: the time to obtain the Italian passport was such that it exceeded the close of the transfer market and the affiliation margins (before October 5) .
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