The Rome public prosecutor’s office has requested the indictment of Napoli owner, Aurelio De Laurentiis.
De Laurentiis has been accused of false accounting over a period of three years, including deals for Victor Osimhen and Kostas Manolas.
Multiple outlets in Italy, including Sky and La Gazetta dello Sport are reporting that the Napoli patron has been accused of recording fictitious capital gains in the club’s purchase of Osimhen from French club, Lille in 2020.
Manolas’ move from AS Roma to Napoli in 2019 is also under scrutiny.
Investigators alleged that those two deals generated fictitious capital gains worth a figure in the tens of millions by inflating the value of certain players beyond their actual worth on the transfer market.
Prosecutors Lorenzo Del Giudice and Giorgio Orano have also requested that Napoli, the club, and De Laurentiis’s right-hand man Andrea Chiavelli be put on trial.
