it's italy, they should have known better considering the circumstances. if the whole system is after you, there are some hints. and especially after calciopoli, you should be alert.
look, at my previous job we had some governmental money to spend, so we knew that the press and a few political parties will be watching us. a few colleagues thought that they might be wiretapped, we searched everything in the building, and we found some bugs. we did nothing illegal, but we stopped using the phones and the office building for sensitive conversations. and we mostly were young, inexperienced, naive people.
agnelli has been reminded thousand times in the last 20 years that juventus is a target. those wiretaps were recorded through locally planted devices, like mics in cars and offices. club's been paying tens of millions on a yearly basis for useless agents, but apparently not enough on security. let's hope the next proper president (not this puppet) is a bit more paranoid than aa was.
and yes, we should have never started those swap deals. it's a terrible business practice, that's undefendable, even if it's not illegal by the accounting standards. you can use amortization to ease financing as it's a non cash expense, that's corporate finances 101, but you can't get away with hundreds of millions of amortization on the long run. not only covid screwed with our finances.