The purchase of Osimhen from Lille is a family affair. The entire Napoli board which, in the summer of 2020, purchased the Nigerian striker from Lille He is under investigation for false accounting. Therefore, the notice of guarantee, which certifies the closure of the investigation, as anticipated yesterday by Republicit didn’t just reach the number one of the club, the president Aurelio De Laurentiis, but also to the two vice presidents, his wife Jacqueline Baudit and his son Edoardo.
WHAT NAPLES RISKS – Last May 22nd, the Federal Court of Appeal sanctioned Juventus with ten penalty points in the context of capital gains, what is Napoli at risk today? In 2022, federal justice acquitted the club, but theThe federal prosecutor could refer the company again for the same operation using the revocation mechanism. This could happen if he were to receive acts with new elements, unknown at the time. For this reason, the FIGC prosecutor’s office asked the ordinary judiciary for the investigation papers, from prosecutors Lorenzo del Giudice and Giorgio Orano.
‘WE ARE QUIET’ – De Laurentiis says he is calm, through the words of the lawyer Fabio Fulgeri, who will ask to see the documents on Monday: “It will probably take a week before we can receive them, these are normal technical times. – reports the Corriere dello Sport – For the moment we do not know any new elements, the investigation was obviously classified, but I would like to underline that this act from the prosecutor’s office is not an indictment, rather the information closing the investigations. And I also remember that the magistrates of Naples excluded the possibility of tax crimes. That is, tax evasion. We are calm. The operation brought no advantages and De Laurentiis, obviously, will defend himself. First of all, however, let’s wait to understand what they are contesting”,
THE POSITION OF GIUNTOLI – At the moment there doesn’t seem to be any risk for the former Italian sporting director and current Juventus sporting director Cristiano Giuntoli: he is not currently involved in the investigations in which Napoli is included, so there doesn’t seem to be any risk.
OSIMHEN PURCHASE, THE FIGURES – According to the data of the 2021 budget, as reported Football&Finance, these are the real figures of the Osimhen operation: the Nigerian striker was purchased by the Neapolitan club for 76,356,819 euros. In the same negotiation, Aurelio De Laurentiis’s Italian club sold four players to Lille, for overall capital gains of just under 20 million euros. Below are all the figures:
Ciro Palmieri – 7,026,349 euros (capital gain 7,026,349 euros)
Orestis Karnezis – 5,128,205 euros (capital gain 4,828,205 euros)
Luigi Liguori – 4,071,247 euros (capital gain 4,071,247 euros)
Claudio Manzi – 4,021,762 euros (capital gain 4,021,762 euros)