The Prosecutor’s Office of the Italian Football Federation (FIGC) has opened an investigation against Juventus and Napoli, among other clubs, for alleged fictitious capital gains obtained through a series of market operations, including the one that involved in 2020 the signing of Brazilian Arthur Melo from Barcelona, Italian media reported on Wednesday.
FIGC prosecutor Giuseppe Chiné received a report from the Football Club Supervisory Commission (COVISOC, for its Italian acronym) on 42 transactions in which the market value of some footballers was “inflated” to fix the accounts economic aspects of certain clubs, indicates the Italian newspaper “La Repubblica”.