dismissal requested for the Friedkins

The Rome Prosecutor’s Office has closed the investigation into the hypothesis of false accounting for theAs Roma. The case was opened for some market operations concluded between 2017 and 2021. The crimes charged were false accounting and information manipulation. Twelve buying and selling transactions of footballers for a “realised capital gain” of 179 million euros, emerges from the documents.

According to the prosecutor’s hypothesis, the club would have made a series of fictitious capital gains over the years through player exchange transactions which were apparently carried out separately from other purchase and sale transactions and subsequently recorded at higher values. At a later time the player was recorded in the company’s balance sheet at a higher value than the actual value.

De Laurentiis investigated for false accounting in the Osimhen case, according to the Rome Prosecutor’s Office he now risks trial

Capital gains Rome, investigations closed

Among the people who risk ending up on trial, in addition to the former president James Pallotta and the former general director Mauro Baldissoni, are also the former CEO Guido Fienga, Giorgio Francia, Umberto Maria Ghandini, Francesco Malknecht. The hypothesized crimes, depending on the positions, are false corporate communications, market manipulation and concern a series of negotiations involving footballers including Defrel, Marchizza and Frattesi. The Zaniolo, Santon and Nainggolan operations as well as those of Cristante, Tumminello, Spinazzola and Luca Pellegrini are also under the scrutiny of the investigators. The Manolas and Diawara operations are also mentioned in the investigation closing document.

Request for dismissal for the Friedkins

Regarding the investigation, the Prosecutor’s Office explains in a note that “the request for dismissal was requested against the current directors of the company”, including the president and vice-president of Roma Dan and Ryan Friedkin, since “that in the period following 2021 , the year of acquisition of the company by the current owners, operations of the type of those being contested were no longer carried out, while the repercussions of the previous operations on subsequent financial statements did not determine significant consequences on the reliability of the financial statement results and the financial situation of the company society”.

In the note, the judicial office led by Francesco Lo Voi states that according to the accusation the Giallorossi club “would have realized over the years” from 2017 to 2021 “a series of fictitious capital gains through player exchange operations which were apparently carried out as separate purchase and sale transactions and therefore accounted for, in violation of the accounting principle”.

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