Overview

• Rome prosecutors Lorenzo del Giudice and Giorgio Orano have sought to send Napoli president Aurelio De Laurentiis and CEO Andrea Chiavelli to trial on alleged false accounting tied to the 2020 Osimhen deal.
• A preliminary hearing is reported for November 6, following publication by Repubblica of Guardia di Finanza documents that include emails and chats from the negotiation.
• The materials cite a message urging “no traces in emails” and an email attributed to Lille’s Gérard Lopez about paying a lower price with a “nominal value” needed to close the transaction.
• Investigators outline a structure of roughly €50 million in cash plus about €20 million in valuations for Orestis Karnezis and three Napoli youth players, who, according to reporting, never completed moves or medicals in France.
• An internal Lille email from director Julien Mordacq warned the CEO that any “strange” element could prompt questions about the set of operations, as the FIGC prosecutor Giuseppe Chinè maintained the 2022 sporting acquittal without reopening the case.