Andrea Agnelli and two other former Juventus directors were handed suspended prison sentences following a plea bargain deal related to accounting irregularities between 2019 and 2021 on Monday.
Agnelli, from the influential family long associated with Juventus, was sentenced to one year and eight months on charges of fraud and market manipulation. These charges pertained to artificially inflating capital gains from transfers and providing misleading information about players waiving wages during the Covid-19 pandemic.
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Former vice-president Pavel Nedved was sentenced to one year and two months, while ex-sporting director Fabio Paratici was handed
a punishment of one year and six months. Former CEO Maurizio Arrivabene was acquitted of all charges.
Agnelli stated that the plea bargain was not an admission of guilt, a sentiment echoed by Juventus, which was fined 157,000 euros. He remarked, “The decision to request the application of a suspended sentence has been an undoubtedly difficult one. After much reflection, I am convinced it is the most appropriate path, given that this criminal proceeding, initiated nearly four years ago, remains at the preliminary hearing stage, and the alternative would have been an indefinite limbo dragging on for many more years.”
These rulings conclude the legal troubles stemming from a scandal that shook Italian football’s most widely-supported club and led to a 10-point deduction during the 2022-23 season. Agnelli resigned as Juve chairman, along with the rest of the board, in late 2022. He was subsequently banned twice by the Italian Football Federation in the following year—one ban lasting two years and the other for 16 months.
