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EFE
The Italian Nicolo Fagiolimidfielder of the Fiorentina Investigated for participating in an illegal betting network, he urged several of his close friends and colleagues to leave money to make a resale business of luxury watches with the Spanish Álvaro Moratathat is not among those investigated.
The intention of Fagioli It was to make fast money to settle his debt for the game. “The rolex gets them Álvaro Morata For much less and then he reverts them. I’ve been doing this business with him for a year, “was one of the messages intercepted by the authorities and published on Monday by ‘La Gazzetta dello Sport’.
Fagioli is being investigated by the Prosecutor’s Office of Milan (North) Next to a dozen players for having participated in an illegal betting network between 2021 and 2023. In October of that last year he received a 7 -month sports sanction without playing for having opted for football matches, something forbidden by the Italian Football Federation (Figc).
The investigation to the rest of the players, among which are Leandro Paredes, Ángel Di María or Junior Firpohe was born from telephone conversations extracted from the mobiles of his own Fagioli And his compatriot Sandro Tonaliwhich was also sanctioned sportsly, although with 10 months of punishment.
Following this research and private chats Fagioli The giant debt of the Italian international footballer was discovered, which reached almost 3 million euros, as revealed ‘repubblica’.
Fagiolidesperate to settle the debt and under the threats of the chiefs of the illegal network, which also forced him to be a kind of players recruiter to bet, he turned to his teammates of the Juventusclose friends and former partners of the Cremon To raise money to pay.
Some of those who asked for money mentioned the name of Morataalthough it is not proven to tell the truth. The captain of the Spanish team is not among those investigated.
“Please don’t tell you because Álvaro He learns that I do it or tell others, he will get very much and will not let me do it anymore. They (jewelry) do not earn money with this, but they do it because Álvaro And we advertising them, “he explained in an audio message to Gianmaria Carrotexcommunicero in the quarry of the ‘Juve’, as published by ‘Eurosport’.
In total, Fagioli He gathered about 600,000 euros. Among the most prominent names of the 31 people who left money are those of Federico Gatti (Juventus) and Radu Dragusin (Tottenham)although the most striking is that of Federico Luciani, Assistant Serial A Referee, which lent him 73,000 euros.
The referee made a total of 8 transfers in 2022 worth 73,000 euros to the jewelry ‘Elysium’, That was the cover of the players to settle their debts. They simulated a purchase of a luxury watch or jewelry, but they only left or transferred the money and stayed with the invoice, while the product remained in the store; Or they paid double for any product and, in that case, they did remove it.
Many of those who left him the money without knowing the real reason why Fagioli I needed it they began to demand that he would return it: “I wait until Monday, you have broken my balls … you told me that your father needed it and I gave it to you immediately,” his compatriot snapped Caleb Okoliwith which it coincided in the Cremon.
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Fagioli He played for just over one season with the ‘Juve’ under the pressure of the threats of the managers of the betting network. “I will stop playing. I will even take away the pen to sign contracts because you are shit,” he said ‘Nelly’, One of them.
In fact, during that time, at the beginning of 2023, he left an image that went viral by making a mistake before the Sassuolo that supposed the defeat of his. He was replaced and broke to cry on the bench, in which he initially blamed the error and that, however, as the footballer himself later confessed, it was due to the pressure of the debts.
In any case, as regards the played players, being an illegal betting network – except that they were betting on football matches – they will not receive sports sanction, although they could receive a penalty.
