Cristiano Ronaldo could be called for questioning due to the latest events at Juventus, which raised suspicions in the public that the Portuguese footballer is in some way connected with irregularities in the club’s work, after his transfer to Old Trafford. The Milan newspaper “Gazeta delo Sport” announced a few days ago that the public prosecutor would call Ronaldo, as part of it’s investigation, and investigators could call in Cristiano Ronaldo’s agent, Jorge Mendes, to request information on the ‘secret’ Juventus contract.Can Juventus do anything by the book? Bunch of over-inflated transfers and unreal agent commissions under scrutinyThe Bianconeri are under investigation for false accounting and have announced with an official statement that there is a new search order in relation to the case.“The club announce to have received the notification of a new search and seizure order relating to the ongoing investigations by the Public Prosecutor at the Court of Turin against the club and some of its current (Andrea Agnelli, Pavel Nedved, Stefano Cerrato and Cesare Gabasio) and previous representatives. As already disclosed, the Company is cooperating with the investigators and with Consob and trusts to clarify any aspect of interest to it as it believes to have acted in compliance with the laws and regulations governing the preparation of financial reports, in accordance with accounting principles and in line with the international practice in the football industry and market conditions,” the club’s statement read.(1.27) JUVENTUS (6.00) GENOA (14.00)Practically from the first day of the investigation, a “secret document” has been mentioned in Juventus offices, which, as it is stated, “essentially should not exist” and people from the prosecution have not found it yet. It became known that the people in the club were put to “measures”, which means their conversations with their closest associates were legally tapped. Corriere di Torino reports that the competent authorities intercepted the conversation between the sports director of Juventus, Federico Cherubini, and the club lawyer, Cesare Gabasio, which dates from September 23 this year. In that conversation, one can allegedly hear Gabasio saying that he “talked to the president”, probably referring to Andrea Agnelli, about “performing a fake transaction”. He continues to talk about ‘making a fake transaction’ and that he ‘wouldn’t go to the extreme… of making a lawsuit because the document they have to come up with doesn’t help us so much in the balance sheet’.‘My brother died in front of me’: Ibra you have never seen beforeAfter Cherubini’s house was checked, none of the examined witnesses in this procedure wanted to confirm the existence of the disputed document, and Mauricio Arivabene, one of the new directors of Juventus employees this summer, said that he was “not aware that the document exists or where it could be hidden”. In the eventual further proceedings, Gabasio, together with Andrea Agnelli and Pavel Nedved, would be considered as suspects, while Cherubini is still being conducted as a witness. Juventus are being accused of ‘reporting the economic values of the sale of Ronaldo to Manchester United at the price of €15m in a different way from the truth’.
