The FIGC Prosecutor’s Office closed its investigation and the CONI Attorney General accepted the dismissal. There was nothing in the investigation that ended Rocchi’s career.
After the requests for dismissal of the two criminal cases for the hypothesis of sports fraud, in the hands of the prosecutors of Milan and Monza (requests on which the two judges for the preliminary investigations will have to rule), now Arbitropoli ends up in nothing even from a sporting point of view. The FIGC Prosecutor’s Office presented a request for dismissal and the General Prosecutor’s Office at CONI, led by Ugo Taucer, accepted the request. Therefore, no consequences from the point of view of sporting justice for the former designator Gianluca Rocchi which comes out completely clean from an affair in which the only clear element was the absolute non-existence of the material collected by prosecutor Maurizio Ascione and then also evaluated by his colleague Paolo Ielo.
ROCCHI AND THE MUD MACHINE: WHO COMPENSATES HIM?
The sports investigation was born from the investigation by the Milan Prosecutor’s Office initiated by prosecutor Maurizio Ascione and continued for two years on the basis of the hypothesis of a crime of sports fraud in competition. The news emerged when the notice of guarantee was sent to the then designator Gianluca Rocchi, last April 25th. Rocchi had taken a step back by suspending himself from the role, which he would have concluded at the end of the season anyway.
The two strands, the one relating to the alleged (non-existent) pressure to guarantee Inter welcome referees and the one on the so-called knocks in the Var Room, the latter transferred to the Monza Prosecutor’s Office for territorial jurisdiction over the Lissone centre, both ended in nothing: both prosecutors have signed requests for dismissal, dismantling the investigation piece by piece and the judge’s assessment is missing to write the final word on the matter.
From a sporting point of view, however, the story ends here. The FIGC chief prosecutor, Giuseppe Chiné, having received the documents from the magistrates and asked for an extension to seek feedback also through the hearings of some referees, considered that there was nothing prosecutable on a sporting level.
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