Rome prosecutors on Wednesday
requested that Napoli Chairman Aurelio De Laurentiis be sent to
trial in relation to alleged false accounting in the club's
balance sheets in 2019, 2020 and 2021.
The case centres on the purchases defender Kostas Manolas from
AS Roma in the summer of 2019 and of striker Victor Osimhen from
French club Lille in 2020.
The prosecutors also requested that the Naples club and De
Laurentiis's right-hand man, Andrea Chiavelli, also be indicted.
De Laurentiis's lawyers, Fabio Fulgeri and Lorenzo Contrada,
blasted the prosecutors' requests and said no wrongdoing was
committed.
"The decision to also proceed against S.S.C. Napoli appears
incomprehensible, considering that opinions drawn up by
technical consultants and third-party entities (Assomine) are on
file that incontrovertibly demonstrate that Napoli acted
legitimately and in compliance with Italian accounting
principles," the lawyers said.
"We are extremely confident that the proceedings will be
concluded positively'.
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