Overwhelmed by the controversy, also targeted by Minister Abodi, the chief prosecutor of the FICV Chinè defends himself and explains why a year ago he archived the complaint which started the Milan investigation into the referees.
Why did the FIGC Prosecutor’s Office in recent months close the complaint of the former assistant referee, Domenico Rocca, at the basis of the investigation by the Milan Prosecutor’s Office which is overwhelming Italian football? This is the question that many professionals and fans have been asking themselves since the news of the investigation into the (self-suspended) designer Gianluca Rocchi, the hypothesis of a crime of sports fraud in competition, became public knowledge.
A story also at the center of the attack by the Minister of Sport, Andrea Abodiwho, commenting on what is emerging from Milan, focused precisely on the management of the matter – or the part known in May 2025 – within the sports justice system. The leverage to almost certainly arrive at the FIGC’s commissionership in the next few days, thus canceling the assembly to elect the new president, set for June 22nd in Rome.
A tsunami that risks also overwhelming the Prosecutor’s Office of the Football Federation and which has pushed the chief prosecutor Giuseppe Chinè, already discussed for the latest events linked to Juventus’ capital gains and the failure to request the reopening of the investigation into the Osimhen case, to take a position with a long note.
Referee investigation: the note from the head of the FIGC Prosecutor’s Office, Chinè
Irregular modality for a story with dark contours and which could potentially take Italian football back in time to the events of Calciopoli. Here is the full content of the note Giuseppe Chinè: “Since in these last hours some press outlets are spreading untruthful and even fanciful news, devoid of any adherence to the reality of the events, for the exclusive purpose of protecting the timely and scrupulous work of the FIGC Federal Prosecutor’s Office which I have the honor of leading, I would like to confirm that on 21 May 2025 I received exclusively the complaint signed by the assistant Domenico Rocca, on the alleged external intervention in the VAR room of the designer Rocchi, during the Udinese-Parma match.
Following this complaint, in full compliance with the rules of the Sports Justice Code, a sporting investigation was immediately opened, with the hearing of all the parties involved and possible knowledge of the facts narrated by the exponent. As a result of these preliminary investigations and the testimonies given by the people present in the Lissone building, no significant sporting disciplinary conduct emerged against any Aia member.
As required by the current Sports Justice Code, the Federal Prosecutor’s Office therefore proposed, in July 2025, to the General Prosecutor’s Office for Sport at CONI to order the dismissal of the sports disciplinary proceedings. This proposal, in light of the investigative measures carried out, and in particular the content of the declarations made by all the subjects audited, was shared by the General Prosecutor’s Office for Sport.
As regards any new facts of possible sporting disciplinary importance which the Milan Public Prosecutor’s Office is dealing with, as per the practice of my Office and as I have always done in the past in relation to other well-known criminal trials susceptible to sporting disciplinary interest, I confirm that I am already in contact with the investigating bodies in charge of the criminal proceedings and that I have already taken steps, as of yesterday, to formally request the documents of the criminal investigation where possible, to initiate and, possibly, reopen, if there is evidence new and considered decisive, the sports investigation”.
