After nine years, the Supreme Court writes an end to Calciopoli: prescription for Luciano Moggi and Antonio Giraudo. De Santis, the only conviction upheld.
2006-2015: after nine years ends, finally, the chapter Calciopoli. At least judicially speaking. To write the final word on the scandal that rocked Italian football, producing among other things the resounding relegation of Juventus to Serie B, was the Supreme Court.
The final judgment in fact, as expected, came in the night of Monday, lagging behind the timetable initially set: the Court was presented in the courtroom taking the people on tenterhooks Italian football, not just Juventus.
Luciano Moggi, former CEO of Juventus, was acquitted of two cases of sports fraud. To the old Juventus manager, however, prescription for criminal association. Prescribed for fraud, the other former executive of Juventus, Antonio Giraudo, originally sentenced to 1 year and 8 months expedited.
Acquitted referees Bertini and Dattilo, rejected the appeals of Andrea and Diego Della Valle and former referees Massimo De Santis, who had given up the prescription, and Salvatore Racalbuto (prescribed on appeal, there has waived). Canceled without court also convicted former referee Pierluigi Pairetto, and is prescribed for the offense Innocenzo Mazzini, former vice president of the Football Federation. The sentence was read at the end of a very long closed session started at 19 and ended shortly after the first night. Closed the criminal trial of Calciopoli, remains open to civil.
The decision of the Third Criminal Chamber accepted the request of the Supreme Court pg Gabriele Mazzotta, who on the morning of Monday, had asked to confirm "the existence of a conspiracy to influence the results of matches, the designation of arbitration, careers the race directors, and the election of the vertices of the Football League. " For Mazzotta were to validate the judgments of the second degree, except for some episodes of sporting fraud and convictions of Bertini and Dattilo.
Mazzotta also explained the structure, the dome, challenged: "Everyone came together to make an attempt on the results of individual matches but also to give support to Carraro, candidate at the top of the FIGC, or drive dossier against Della Valle, guilty of wanting another President at the head of the League. The presidents of Fiorentina would have to report these behaviors. "
"The process was carried out in an abnormal way: we joked for nine years. One unfortunate thing and it all worked out in anything," said Luciano Moggi, after the reading of the verdict in the Supreme Court. "In recent years it has been established that the championship was regular, the draws regular, and notices there were. The two Serie A titles? It 'a problem of Juventus, not mine. I am happy for those who have been acquitted and for those who were close to me, the less happy for everything that has happened. I'm glad, I think the problem is resolved. The compensation FIGC to Juve? Domandatelo to others, I am happy for me. "
The speaker also Massimo De Santis, the only defendant to Calciopoli process for which the Supreme Court upheld the conviction. "I feel a great disappointment, not wish anyone to happen in this kind of justice. There seems to have been discriminated against me, I want to understand why I was the only referee involved in the association." Remains the sentence of 10 months imprisonment with suspended sentence.
One arbitrator thus constituting the dome moggiana: Mazzotta had asked for absolution Bertini and Dattilo, two of the three referees who had given up the prescription and the designator of the linesman Mazzei: in the morning pg had also rejected the appeal by the prosecution to Naples who had applied for an order of Pieri, Dondarini and Rocchi, already acquitted on appeal. After the ruling of the Supreme Court and pending the motivations of the court, the word and the conclusions to the people Italian football.