Overview

• Prosecutors Lorenzo del Giudice and Giorgio Orano have requested the indictment of Aurelio De Laurentiis and CEO Andrea Chiavelli for alleged false accounting, with a preliminary hearing set for November 6, 2025.
• La Repubblica published Guardia di Finanza files that include an email attributed to then‑Lille president Gérard Lopez referencing the need to reach a “nominal value” to complete the deal.
• Chats cited by investigators show then‑Napoli deputy sporting director Giuseppe Pompilio telling Cristiano Giuntoli to leave no traces in emails, while Andrea Chiavelli wrote, “Let’s hope they refuse… otherwise we’ll have to turn to robberies.”
• The 2020 transfer combined roughly €50 million in cash with about €20 million in valuations for Orestis Karnezis and three youth players, who never joined Lille and told investigators they were never contacted.
• FIGC prosecutor Giuseppe Chinè reviewed the Rome case file in April and did not seek to reopen the sports proceeding closed in 2022, a stance that has drawn comparisons with the Juventus Prisma affair.