Hellas paid the amount agreed upon. One less burden for the club, so there are offers
Verona and Maurizio Setti take another burden off their shoulders. Yesterday, in fact, the payment of the 8 million 250 thousand euros that Hellas was made, through a settlement agreement completed in recent months with the extraordinary administration of Parma Ac, thus closing a long dispute. The green light for the agreement was given on Friday by the Ministry of Business and Made in Italy. Then, Verona paid the amount agreed upon, after an installment had already been paid previously as a guarantee. For a decade a sword of Damocles had been suspended over the yellow-blue club, now the matter is, finally, closed to all intents and purposes.
It all started from events that occurred between 1998 and 2003, with Hellas which, at the time, was owned by Giambattista Pastorello and Parma which was led by Calisto Tanzi and Parmalat. In that period there had been various transfer transactions that had affected the relationship between the two clubs. Among others, the transfers to Parma from Verona of Adailton, Adrian Mutu, Martino Melis, Martin Laursen and Alberto Gilardino. When Parmalat collapsed, Parma AC was affected, with the company declared insolvent. The extraordinary commissioner presented a request for compensation of 18 million euros, plus revaluation and interest, stating that the transfers between Hellas and Parma were anomalous and that they were a tool used by Tanzi to “finance” Pastorello’s Verona, a club very close to Parma itself, of which Pastorello had been manager for years, only to later leave the position and subsequently acquire Hellas.
Those operations, according to the prosecution, would have caused damage to Parma Ac, contributing to its insolvency. Hence the proceeding, which in the first two levels of judgment had been against Verona. The Court of Cassation remained. If the “stoats” had confirmed the ruling, Hellas would have had to pay a sum close to 25 million, with a very serious impact on the accounts and the company itself which would have found itself at high risk. The parties, through technicians and lawyers, closed the transaction, with Verona paying a high amount but two thirds less than what a negative final verdict would have cost them. For Hellas, on Saturday there was the revocation of the seizure of the shares of Star Ball ordered in December, after that, with the agreement concluded between Setti’s companies and those of Gabriele Volpi, an entrepreneur with whom it had been open for some time a judicial dispute centered on the request for payment of a debt. Boulders rolling away for Verona and its owner. And the hypothesis of a sale of Hellas by Setti, this being the case, becomes less complicated. There are some interests, it is too early to fully evaluate them, but now the road is much clearer. For Verona, now, the great objective of remaining in Serie A must be achieved on the pitch: salvation.
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