Overview

• Fidal’s tribunal imposed a 36‑month suspension and inhibition, split into 30 months for rule violations and 6 months for aggravating conduct tied to seeking or concealing another offense.
• The decision, deposited on October 6 and posted on fidal.it, bars Tortu from any club or federation role and from access to training or competition venues, voiding his Raptors Milano position immediately.
• Federation prosecutor Michele Ponzelletti alleged Tortu engaged technicians linked to the private firm Equalize to access Jacobs’s devices in search of doping evidence, claiming a €10,000 payment.
• The Milan prosecutor’s criminal investigation remains open, with Tortu under investigation and defense filings asserting there is no proof Jacobs’s chats were extracted or that such data exists.
• Interviews in the case record note Filippo Tortu said he knew nothing of the affair and Marcell Jacobs said he learned of it from the press and voiced no doubts about Filippo’s innocence.