Palermo football, former owners of Tuttolomondo arrested

The financial police arrested the businessmen Salvatore and Walter Tuttolomondo, former owners of Palermo football, and notified the scope of the obligation to appear before the judicial police and the prohibition of doing business for one year to three of their collaborators: Roberto Bergamo, Titian Gabriele. and Antonio Atria. At the same time, the yellow flames carried out the preventive seizure of sums of money for a total of 1,395,129.31 euros.

The suspects are accused of the crimes of fraudulent bankruptcy, undue compensation of taxes with non-existent credits, self-laundering, falsification and obstruction of the supervisory functions of the Supervisory Commission of football clubs (Covisoc).

The sale of Palermo shares

The operation was called “Extra time” and was carried out by delegation from the local Public Ministry, the financiers of the Palermo provincial command and the Calutaria special police unit in Rome. Investigations carried out by investigators from the Palermo economic-financial police unit – capital market protection group – and by group III of the special exchange police unit, followed by a pool of substitutes coordinated by the deputy prosecutor Salvatore de Luca , stem from the sale of the shares of the American city of Palermo carried out in 2019 at a price of 10 euros in favor of Sporting Network srl, a company controlled by Arkus Network srl, attributable to the Tuttolomondo brothers. The investigations were carried out with wiretaps, bank checks and document analysis, and allowed to outline “serious indications about the commission of crimes during the acquisition and subsequent management of the aforementioned football club.”

Accuses him

According to the indictment, the Tuttolomondo, with the help of professionals and trusted men – “would have settled tax debts through the use of non-existent tax credits, for 1.4 million euros; made false communications to Covisoc in relation to the discharge.” obligations relating to the payment of salaries to employees and the payment of taxes; pending the request for settlement with the creditors, he made unauthorized payments by the Court of Palermo, for more than 200,000 euros in favor of reference professionals to the detriment of other creditors; amount of 341,600 euros from the current account of the football club in favor of a company attributable to them without real operation, justifying the operation as an advance of the remuneration provided for the assignment of a consulting assignment that is actually simulated; later they proceeded to contract the aforementioned sum in other economic activities, in order to hide their origins without crime “.

In June 2019, the American city of Palermo, not having resolved, therefore, within the established deadlines, the obligations required both in terms of payment of taxes and in relation to the payment of salaries and emoluments owed to players and employees , did not get the record. to the Series B championship, since Lega Calcio and Covisoc “did not consider that the minimum requirements established by the corresponding regulations existed.”