An Italian Soccer Federation (FIGC)
tribunal on Monday banned former Juventus chairman Andrea
Agnelli from football for 16 months over a case regarding
irregularities in an agreement between the club and players for
salary cuts during the COVID-19 pandemic.
The tribunal also fined Agnelli 60,000 euros.
The wages case regards Juve's announcement at the start of the
pandemic that players had agree to take a big pay cuts for four
months to enable the club to make ends meet during the health
emergency.
Juve, however, allegedly made secret payments to players, who
only gave up one month's salary.
The club and other former directors implicated in the case
reached a plea bargain with sporting prosecutors to pay a
718,000-euro fine in May.
The Turin giants were docked 10 Serie A points last season in a
separate case about financial irregularities regarding allegedly
inflated values assigned to some transfer dealings in the club's
balance sheets in recent years.
Agnelli was banned from football for 24 months over that case so
the new ruling takes the overall total up to 40 months.
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