The Rai 3 broadcast on “The dark plots of Italian football” also investigated Raiola for a fictitious venue and Coric’s transfer to Rome
“The dark plots of Italian football”. This is the title of yesterday’s in-depth analysis of “Report” on Rai 3, which sparked furious controversy. War of prosecutors, exorbitant commissions, gambling companies with ambiguous ownership, market deals full of opacity: a journey into a football in which, and this unfortunately is not a revelation, the dramatically overdrawn accounts of the clubs coexist with easy millionaires and not just the players. And in which even the reaction of the sports institutions obviously crashes on many rubber walls. As in the case of the Uefa dossier, presented in the broadcast, which speaks of two billion euros of “illicit financial transactions” in the world of football in the 2018-2019 season.
Clash with Raiola
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The front from which the investigation started is that of the role of some prosecutors and the denunciation of a situation of growing “oligopoly” of the market with a few prosecutors who take most of the mediation cake, marginalizing most of their colleagues. On the one hand, the alleged pressure of some players to convince colleagues to change agents. On the other hand, that sort of double intermediation that continues to characterize some negotiations despite regulatory prohibitions, agents who act as consultants for some clubs and at the same time represent the interests of some players. Then there is the case of Mino Raiola, one of the top names in the galaxy of prosecutors, who accused Rai of fake news: “It is a shame that state television, using public money, can tell so many falsehoods”. At the center of the clash is the address of the Maltese company Three Sport News of the Donnarumma prosecutor, Ibrahimovic and many others. For the authors of the report it is a ghost address of a fictitious company, while Raiola denounces a thesis report and a seat “that they did not want or knew how to find”. A reconstruction disputed by the broadcast and its conductor Sigfrido Ranucci: “It is the same address that is reported in the official documents of the Football Federation and which is authentic for the fiscal controls on mediation operations. And Raiola for months, despite repeated invitations, has not never wanted to answer Report’s questions. “
Tare denies it
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In the broadcast it was also told of an alleged hidden ownership of Top Bast, a company with 400 betting halls in Albania, behind which there would be the sporting director of Lazio Igli Tare with his brother Genti, Albanian consul in Turkey (also brought up for the purchase of Vedat Muriqi from Fenerbahce). Which would have played a role in the attempt to buy the company by some underworld clans, a deal that remained at stake because it was judged not convenient by potential buyers. The Biancoceleste manager responded harshly even before the broadcast, on the basis of various journalistic advances, declaring himself “absolutely extraneous to the company in respect of which he has no direct or indirect interest”. Tare categorically denies another step of the investigation, the attempt to buy the company by the Martiradonna clan, “an operation of which – its lawyers say in a note – ignores any information”. A position that led the Lazio executive to distrust “Report” from being broadcast. In the investigation of the Public Prosecutor’s Office of Bari (in the transmission an information from the Guardia di Finanza is cited), the two Tare brothers are not investigated. The documents also reached the federal prosecutor’s office, at the time, year 2018, in which it was led by Giuseppe Pecoraro, who had considered that there were no elements to investigate the position of the Lazio executive.
The purchase of Coric
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In the broadcast other episodes are also mentioned, for example that of the purchase of Ante Coric from Dinamo Zagreb by Roma still during the Pallotta management (the operation is in 2018). The Croatian investigators and those of the Rome Prosecutor’s Office are investigating the circumstances of the operation, and in particular on the 1.2 million commission (the player was paid eight million) of euros paid to a Roman company. The last installment of the sum has not yet been paid by the Giallorossi club which says it is prudently waiting for a clarification on the judicial side of the matter.
June 8 – 00:54
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