Inter President Massimo Moratti To Be Summoned By FIGC's Calciopoli Investigation Panel
The Italian FA's (FIGC) Calciopoli investigation panel want to ask Massimo Moratti questions as part of their own enquiries...
Inter president Massimo Moratti is among those summoned by the FIGC's panel dedicated to Calciopoli to answer a number of questions in relation to the 2006 match-fixing scandal
Federal prosecutor Stefano Palazzi is spearheading the Italian FA's own investigation into events from 2006. This project is based on the results of the on-going Calciopoli trial at the Tribunal of Naples, presided over by judge Teresa Casoria.
Proceedings in Naples have raised a number of questions in relation to the original sports trial four years ago which saw Juventus stripped of two titles and demoted to Serie B.
Ongoing Investigation
In relation to the large-scale developments at the current trial, Juventus asked the FIGC to open their own investigation in May 2010.
Club president Andrea Agnelli feels the evidence in Naples deserves new light to be shed on the whole Calciopoli affair, and Juventus maintain they have legal reasons to request the 2006 and 2005 titles, stripped, one of which handed to Inter by the sports trial, be restored.
Having assembled a panel to look at the request, filed by club lawyers in May, the FIGC later confirmed they would take a look at the evidence in Naples and aim a fresh look on proceedings across the board, with Palazzi being placed in charge.
Palazzi and his investigation team are expected to move through the pile of evidence the FIGC has obtained from the Naples tribunal, and as part of their probe, will interview a number of key figures, including Inter president Massimo Moratti, who at the time of the scandal was the majority shareholder.
Turin newspaper Tuttosport, who have been reporting on both cases - the Naples trial and the FIGC probe - have fueled the flames of controversy by publishing their own list of eight questions that they say should be posed to Moratti.
Moggi Allegations
Meanwhile, at the Naples trial, Luciano Moggi, the former Juventus transfer director, stands accused of criminal association and sporting fraud, allegations he is denying.
His legal team have shown Moggi's alleged relationship with referees and designators at the time was not exclusive. The referees and designators have also claimed they had spoken freely with the likes of club officials and presidents, with some claiming they were encouraged to keep dialogue open with clubs.
The proceedings have also revealed some 171,000 wiretaps which show Inter, including their late ex-president Giacinto Facchetti, had called a number of designators, mainly Paolo Bergamo, between 2004 and 2006.
However, a large chunk of those calls were not part of the original investigation four years ago. Only now has the Naples court acquired a portion of these taps for use in the current trial.