Italian justice has launched an investigation into possible accounting fraud by the Neapolitan club in the context of the transfer of Nigerian striker Victor Osimen, who arrived from Lille in the summer of 2020, we learned from a court source on Tuesday.
Searches were carried out in the offices of Naples, Castel Volturno և Rome, “Aiming to gather useful evidence of alleged illegal behavior related to the sale or purchase of certain players in the summer of 2020.”It is said in the statement of the Naples prosecutor’s office.
The target of this investigation is especially the Neapolitan president Aurelio De Laurentiis, according to a number of Italian media.
The prosecution alleges that the searches carried out in Italy meet the demands of the Italian and French judicial authorities. The “Lil” club was also wanted in the “Osimen” file in May.
The Nigerian striker joined “Napoli” in 2020 for 70 million euros. But “Napoli” reduced the score, selling the French club for four players for a total of about 20 million euros. This amount was considered by the press to be mostly overestimated, given the description of the players in question, three of whom have never actually played for Lille.
In April, the lawyer of the Italian club defended “Sincerity of surgery”. Osihen is next to another lawsuit launched by Italian sports justice against dozens of clubs for alleged accounting fraud. All these clubs were justified by this sports component.
“We emphasized the sincerity of the action by showing how the value of the four players transferred from Osimeni to Naples-Lille was determined on the basis of technical considerations.”Corriere dello Sport was assured by lawyer Matthias Grassan.
Of the four players bought by the Mastiffs, only Greek goalkeeper Orestis Karnezis (36) has actually joined the Lille team. However, he held only one meeting, in March 2021, before the termination of the contract announced by Loski on May 30.
The other three, Italian striker Chiro Palmieri (22), Italian winger Luigi Liguori (24) and central defender Claudio Manzi (22), were immediately loaned out and then sold. They played in the 3rd or 4th division of Italy last season.
One of them, Luigi Liguori, confessed in the La Repubblica daily last December that he had “never been to Lille”, even to sign the contract. The player, who was sold to Loski for about 4 million euros, after this surgery confessed his “anger”, which, he added. “Weighted” on his career.
Source: Le Figaro
