- 2002-2006: Telecom Italia (Inter sister company) made wiretaps on many people, Moggi and refs some of them, scandal broke based on those calls.
- Spring 2006: Information on Juventus, Milan, Fiorentina and several others claimed, no wiretaps involving Inter personnel. Recent witnesses in court have said that the Rome police (who were dealing with evidence) would not accept any Inter-based evidence, they were only interested in Juve. They also actually used La Gazzetta dello Sport (Milan-based paper with ties to both Inter and Milan) as a source of evidence through their journalist's articles, even though on several occasions they were factually wrong. One instance is of a player who was supposedly suspended for the Juve game on purpose by a referee, who actually played against Juve. These were incredibly used in the sporting trial of 2006 which demoted Juventus.
- Summer 2006: Juve found guilty in a trial that lasted a couple of weeks. Others found guilty and demoted also, but Milan funnily enough had theirs reduced to a measly -8 points so they finished in the CL places. Juve ended up as the only team demoted.
The sentencing found there was no evidence of match fixing (an article 6 violation that equals demotion) in any Juventus or related game, only Lecce-Parma has some suspicion (not relevant to Juve). Juve were found guilty of 6 article 1 violations (unsportsmanship to a ref - points deduction). They added these together to equal an article 6 violation (match fixing) and deducted Juve 91 points, plus demotion down two divisions plus -30 in that division (Serie C1), so it would take them years to return. This was reduced to Serie B and -9 on appeal.
Juve chairman Cobolli Gigli was under pressure from UEFA and the FIGC to accept the verdict as the Italian places in Europe needed to be finalised in a month, so the club didn't challenge it. One judge later said that if Juve had there was such a lack of evidence they would certainly have not been demoted.
- Summer 2007: Juve back in Serie A
- Feb 2008: Inter and Milan are acquitted of sporting fraud dating 2003-2007, as Berlusconi had previously passed laws that prevented backdating of cases. Smaller teams had been demoted for less.
- Feb 2008: Phone tap evidence involving Inter officials and Telecom Italia employees is mentioned in La Stampa (Turin-based newspaper), but swiftly removed. It involves Inter wiretapping Christian Vieri's phone and their relationship with referees.
- Mar 2008: Guido Rossi (Inter director who took over the FIGC in summer 2006 and gave Inter their cardboard scudetto) takes over as a consultant for FIAT, who are of course the owners of Juventus under the IFIL/Exor group.
Moggi's appeal for his ban is rejected
- Jan 2009: Moggi given a suspended prison sentence for illegal Swiss SIM cards, although no evidence was found on contacts. Only Moggi and his son were targeted, no one else at the GEA company who are football agents.
The first batch of new evidence on 'Calciopoli 2' is due to be heard but was postponed.
- Mar 2009: Franco Carraro, ex-ref chief, is cleared of all charges.
- Nov 2009: Christian Vieri claims it was all a conspiracy to remove Juventus from the competition. He claims he has documents to prove it.
- Dec 2009 - Mar 2010: First Calciopoli II hearings, referees give their version of events in court and indict Inter and Milan heavily in asking for favourable officials from referee designators. Many officials who were quick to blame Juve in 2006 are now backtracking.
- Mar 2010 - wiretaps involving Milan and Inter officials have been found.
- Apr 2010 - Vieri sues Inter and demands they be stripped of the 2005-06 scudetto. Moggi and Moratti agree to drop a defamation suit against each other.
Wiretaps of Moratti speaking to Bergamo (ref designator) about referees are published. Meani (Milan referee concierge) speaking to him also, refusing certain officials.
Wiretaps of Facchetti (Inter legend and president) talking to Bergamo are published. Bergamo says 'we will win together'. Many other articles involving Milan and Inter officials come out, some very damning. I can link to any of these. Facchetti actually spoke directly to a referee (De Santis - who was claimed as pro-Juve in the original sporting trial).
Juventus officially take tentative legal action. FIGC chief Giancarlo Abete promises an official review.
In total there are over 171,000 calls involving other teams that were not looked at in 2006, because they wanted a quick trial.
New calls accepted as evidence by Judge Tasoria.
Other teams consider legal action.
John Elkann (Juve president 2006-2010) asks for the 05-06 title to be unassigned.
- May 2010: It emerges Inter director Marco Branca also bought Swiss SIM cards from the same store as Moggi.
Deputy Chief Prosecutor of Italian football is now the number 3 of Telecom Italia.
More calls are transcribed.
- Jun 2010: More court proceedings, referees say there was no pressure to favour Juventus.
- Aug 2010: new Juventus president Andrea Agnelli requests revoked scudetti are returned to the club.
- Oct 2010: Latest court proceedings. Collina claims he was never influenced, although his wiretaps have him strongly linked to Milan. Certainly not to Juve. Remember he is the ref who forced Juve to play a scudetto decider in a bog in Perugia.
141 more calls put forward. More transcribed involving Facchetti and others.
The Roman police chief Auricchio (who has been found guilty of corruption before), the guy who only wanted to accept anti-Juve evidence, says that the griglia (refs draw) was regular and not fixed.
To be continued...
Also read this:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SISMI-Telecom_scandal
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