Inter won't face wiretap penalty Friday 22 June, 2007
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Inter will not be disciplined in an investigation into alleged spying on Christian Vieri, Ronaldo and referee Massimo De Santis, among others.
The club was accused of wire-tapping and setting private investigators on to figures including their own players and former Messina director of sport Mariano Fabiani before the Calciopoli scandal broke out.
An inquest was launched and Vieri has begun proceedings for a civil action against the side, but it was today confirmed that Inter will not face any sporting disciplinary measures.
The Federal Prosecutor found that there were “no particular situations requiring disciplinary action.”
The story of Inter following their players broke out around a year ago and included Adrian Mutu, Ronaldo and ex-Sampdoria man Vladimir Jugovic.
However, Vieri is continuing his legal action and has requested £14m in damages.
Meanwhile, disgraced ex-Juventus director general Luciano Moggi has formally requested that the authorities “destroy” all transcripts of the wiretapped telephone conversations that formed the basis of the Calciopoli trial.
He is suing several major newspapers for “publishing pages of excerpts from these so-called wiretaps despite the law banning the publication of trial evidence until at least one verdict has been announced.”
Instead not only were the transcripts leaked to the Press, but before the Calciopoli trial had even begun copies of some telephone conversations were played on national radio.
Source: Channel4