Prisma Investigation into Juventus Finances
The Prisma investigation is the inquiry by the Turin public prosecutor's office into the financial statements of Juventus, opened over so-called fictitious capital gains. On 26 November 2021 the Guardia di Finanza searched the club's offices: the chairman Andrea Agnelli, the vice-chairman Pavel Nedvěd, the former sporting director Fabio Paratici and other executives came under investigation for false accounting and false invoicing.[1]
The resignation of the board
With the investigation closed on 24 October 2022, on 28 November the entire board of directors, nine members in all, resigned to allow the club to face the inquiry «from a better position»; Gianluca Ferrero was chosen as chairman.[2]
Sporting justice
On 20 January 2023 the Federal Court of Appeal handed Agnelli a twenty-four-month ban over the capital gains case, later extended worldwide by FIFA[3]; the sanction was definitively confirmed by the Italian sports arbitration board (Collegio di garanzia dello sport).[11]
In the so-called salary manoeuvre case, in which he was the only one not to accept a plea bargain, on 10 July 2023 the National Federal Tribunal sanctioned him with a further sixteen months and a €60,000 fine[11][3]; on 28 August 2023 the Federal Court of Appeal reduced the ban to ten months and the fine to €40,000[4], and on 19 January 2024 the CONI arbitration board (Collegio di garanzia) rejected his final appeal, upholding the ten-month ban.[5]
The criminal proceedings
On 6 September 2023 the Court of Cassation ruled that the Turin public prosecutor's office lacked jurisdiction and the case was transferred to Rome, where on 17 July 2024 prosecutors requested that Agnelli and other former executives be committed for trial on charges of market manipulation, obstruction of supervisory authorities and false invoicing.[3][6]
On 22 September 2025 the preliminary hearing judge in Rome, Anna Maria Gavoni, accepted Agnelli's plea bargain request: one year and eight months, suspended; the former chief executive Maurizio Arrivabene, by contrast, obtained a dismissal of the case.[7][8]
The appeal to the Court of Justice of the European Union
Against the sporting bans, Agnelli turned to the administrative courts, and the Lazio Regional Administrative Court referred the matter to the Court of Justice of the European Union. On 16 July 2026 the Court ruled that a sanction banning someone from carrying out a professional activity in all member states restricts the freedoms guaranteed by European law and can be justified only if proportionate to legitimate objectives; an effective remedy must exist against it before an independent court capable of overturning it. It is for the Italian courts to verify whether the system meets these requirements.[9]
On 24 July 2026, with the sanction by then fully served, Agnelli's lawyers asked the Regional Administrative Court to set a hearing date for the appeal.[10]
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