Italy's football federation have charged Juventus,
former general manager Luciano Moggi and a number of match
officials in the second part of investigations into the 2006
match-fixing scandal. Moggi, who had already been banned from
football for five years for his part in corrupting referees, has
been accused of providing foreign mobile phone numbers to match
officials in order to communicate with them
secretly.
A statement on the FIGC website explained that Moggi was being
charged on two points, having also acted as director for Messina
who were in the top flight with Juve at the time of the
scandal:
"a) for having, in the course of the 2004/05 season, built a
system of communication with the referees' association, giving some
of these - directly or through go-betweens - foreign telephone
cards, while furnishing himself with such a form of "confidential"
communication;
"b) for having carried out, until 2005/06, at the same time as
his position with Juventus, functions as a director of Messina,
collaborating in decisions with their directors (Pietro) Franza,
(Mariano) Fabiani and (Mario) Bonsignore, in the period in which
they were in charge."
Juventus have been called into question for their responsibility
as Moggi's employers, with 10 referees also facing charges. After
the initial Calciopoli investigations, the Bianconeri were stripped
of their Scudetto and relegated to Serie B in a scandal that rocked
Italian football.
Mariano Fabiani, Messina's sporting director at the time, and
another former director Mario Bonsignore are implicated in the
second of the charges, while the Sicilian club have also been
accused along with president Pietro Franza.