Overview
- The Italy midfielders, who play for Newcastle and Fiorentina, agreed plea bargains in Milan on Thursday that give Tonali a €78,250 fine and Fagioli one month of arrest, both with suspended sentences after earlier sporting bans and fines.
- Prosecutors had accused them of promoting illegal betting websites used in 2021 to 2023, an offense that can bring up to three months in custody but was cut to one month through the plea.
- Two organizers accepted prison terms of two years and three months and two years, while three partners of the Milan jeweler Elysium Group took two and a half years.
- Investigators say players disguised debt payments by wiring money to Elysium for fake Rolex purchases and never collecting the watches.
- The probe spans roughly a dozen Serie A players, and 18 others closed minor counts by paying a €258 summary fee, a sweep of outcomes that could spur tighter club and league checks on betting.