Suárez, Juventus confirms: Paratici investigated

Juventus, through an official note, confirmed that today Fabio Paratici, head of the sports area, was notified of a guarantee information on the investigation of the Perugia Prosecutor’s Office on the Italian examination of Suárez.

The Juventus club specifies that “the alleged crime is exclusively article 371 bis of the Penal Code” (false information to the Prosecutor’s Office, ed) and reiterates “emphatically the veracity of Paratici’s work and trusts that the ongoing investigations will help clarify the their position in a reasonable time. ”Based on what was read in the order of the investigating judge Frabotta, the investigations“ have revealed hypotheses (in fact they are still being examined by the investigators) of false statements to the prosecutor made by the lawyer Chiappero and the manager (of Juventus – ed) Paratici on the occasion hearings in the Perugia prosecutor’s office “.

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But, what does article 371 bis of the Penal Code to which the Juventus press release refers, specifying that for the Juventus CEO there is only this crime hypothesis and no others? The text reads: “Whoever, in the course of a criminal proceeding, requests from the Public Ministry or the Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court to provide information for investigative purposes, make false statements) or keep, totally or partially, what knows about the facts that are known, he is punished with a prison sentence of up to four years. ” By deduction, we can therefore think that the false or reluctant statements are being challenged by Paratici (the “false testimony” is instead only the procedural one) on the occasion of the interrogation that has evidently been carried out by the prosecutors in recent weeks.

the university in trouble

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The summits of the University for Foreigners of Perugia were suspended, where in September Suárez took the Italian “farce” exam, necessary to obtain the community passport and wear the Juventus jersey. The Perugia prosecutor, led by Raffaele Cantone, communicates this with a press release. “After the searches and seizures of September 22, 2020, the investigations – continued without interruption and in strict compliance with the principle of confidentiality – have significantly corroborated the evidentiary framework that had already been outlined in relation to the organization, by the suspects, during a session enabled ad personam, of a ‘farce’ exam, which allowed the delivery of the certificate of knowledge of the Italian language type ‘B1’ to the renowned Uruguayan footballer Luis Alberto Suárez, a prerequisite for obtaining citizenship. He learned that the content of the test had been previously communicated to the player himself, arriving at predetermining the result and score of the exam, to correspond to the requests that Juventus had made, with the aim of obtaining a positive image return, both personal and for the University ”.

suspensions

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The Guardia di Finanza suspended director Giuliana Grego, director Simone Olivieri and the teachers who examined Barcelona player Luis Suárez from his activity for 8 months. According to the prosecution, “it appears that the contents of the test had been previously communicated to the player himself, predetermining the result and score of the exam, to correspond to the requests that Juventus had made, with the aim of achieving a return positive image, both personally and for the University. ”The alleged crimes are” the disclosure of official secrecy in order to obtain undue financial gain and multiple ideological falsehoods in public documents. ”

Juventus coaches investigated

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We further read: “The investigative investigations also made it possible to understand how, in the first days of September 2020, the management of the Turin club had taken measures, even at the highest institutional levels, to accelerate the recognition of Italian citizenship against Suárez, thus raising the hypothesis of new crime hypotheses against persons other than those of the university, still under investigation. Sharing the accusatory hypotheses, the investigating judge ordered the precautionary measures having detected the concrete facts and current risk that the suspects, if they are not subjected to due caution, they will again propose criminal behaviors similar to those for which they proceed, having demonstrated that they consider the institution to which they belong and that they represent as a private body manageable at will “.

the minister’s note

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The investigations carried out by the financial police also show that the Juventus coach contacted the Minister of Transport Paola de Micheli, his childhood friend, “to expedite the ministerial practice of recognition of Italian citizenship” against the player for a period in the company’s sights. . According to investigators, the government representative gave the executive the contact details of the head of Viminale’s office, Bruno Frattasi, as she herself “admitted.” At night the note from De Micheli arrived, who addressed the magistrates as a person informed about the facts: “Last September, my childhood friend Fabio Paratici, a native of my own city, asked me for information on how to complete the recognition of the Italian citizenship of Suárez. That is why I called the Interior Ministry chief of staff, Bruno Frattasi, anticipating that a Juventus coach would contact him to ask for information. Each story other than what has been said is pure exploitation “, concluded De Micheli.