Gabriele Gravina, president of the Italian Football Federation, is under investigation by the Public Prosecutor's Office of Rome for money laundering and embezzlement.
It all stems from the dossier case that Perugia prosecutors have been working on after discovering the illegal accesses of Finance Lieutenant Pasquale Striano and National Antimafia Directorate prosecutor Antonio Laudati.
The President of the Italian Football Federation , as of yesterday morning, requested to be heard by the Prosecutor's Office to clarify his position.
In the afternoon, he appears at Piazzale Clodio accompanied by his lawyers, Fabio Viglione and Leo Mercurio: the formal registration in the register takes place simultaneously with the beginning of the interrogation; Gravina, being informed about the facts, acquires the status of a suspect, a circumstance that allows him to have certain guarantees such as the presence of his lawyers.
Gravina brings to the interrogation what the defense defines as "several tens of pages" of evidence, traces, documents that would exonerate him from any accusation related to the 2018 tender for the television rights of the Lega Pro, of which he was president at the time of the disputed facts, the sale of antique books never concluded, which would have led to a profit only for the down payments between 250 and 350 thousand euros, and the purchase of a house in Milan for the daughter of his partner. Three circumstances that according to the prosecutors could be connected to each other, determining a single money flow and therefore the crimes of money laundering and embezzlement. The hypothesis under study, therefore, is that the TV rights contract was not granted with the necessary regularity.
Finally, it is not certain that the investigation will remain in the Capital. Just yesterday, the chief prosecutor Francesco Lo Voi scheduled a meeting with the heads of the proceedings to define the next steps to be taken. The purchase of the house in Milan, a key piece of the investigation, could indeed raise a question of territorial jurisdiction that will be carefully evaluated by the investigators in the event of transferring the proceedings to the Lombard Prosecutor's Office. A schedule for new possible hearings has not yet been drawn up, and there are no planned meetings between the prosecutors of Rome and those of Perugia, for now.
Source: Calcio e Finanza
