The Calabria-based 'Ndrangheta
mafia has been involved with ticket touting at Juventus for 10
years, prosecutor Marcello Tatangelo told a trial into Mob
infiltration in northwest Italy on Thursday, referring to ties
between mafia bosses and Bianconeri ultra leaders.
On December 18 Juventus Chairman Andrea Agnelli's
one-year ban for ultra ticketing ties was cut by an Italian
Soccer Federation (FIGC) Federal Court so that it elapsed on
that day.
A 100,000-euro fine was imposed by the court.
As well as the sanctions on Agnelli, the federal court gave
Juve a 600,000-euro fine.
It also ordered a Juve curva end stand closed for the first
home game of 2018, against Genoa on January 21.
The one-year ban was imposed on September 25 when a lower
FIGC court banned Agnelli for one year for improper contacts
with ultra fans including a suspected member of the
'Ndrangheta over ticketing and ticket touting.
Agnelli, 41, was found guilty of "endorsing, or in any case
not preventing" illicit relations to keep hardcore fans happy by
giving them tickets.
Juve stressed that the tribunal's sentence had "ruled out all
hypothesis of a link with members of organised crime".
Agnelli, who was recently elected president of the European
Club Association, has said he only met the allegedly Mob-linked
ultra at meetings with groups of other supporters.
The fan in question, alleged 'Ndrangheta member Rocco
Dominello, has been convicted of ticket touting.
The FIGC tribunal said Agnelli had "sporadic" meetings with
Dominello and was not aware of his criminal background.
In the trial into suspected 'Ndrangheta penetration of the
Piedmont economy, prosecutors have asked a sentence of eight
years for him, and 12 years for his father Saverio.
The longest term, 17 years one month and 16 days, was asked
for Diego Raso, a member of the so-called Santhia' branch of the
Calabrian Mob.
Total terms of 112 years have been requested in the 'North
Piedmont' trial.
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