Posted at 2:54 a.m., Tuesday, July 10, 2007
Soccer: Indictments sought in match-fixing scandal
Associated Press
NAPLES, Italy — Prosecutors asked a court today to indict 37 former and present soccer officials and referees in last year's match-fixing scandal that shook Italian soccer.Former Juventus managers Luciano Moggi and Antonio Giraudo, AC Milan's Leonardo Meani, Andrea Della Valle and Diego Della Valle of Fiorentina, and Lazio president Claudio Lotito were among those named by prosecutors Filippo Beatrice and Giuseppe Narducci, the ANSA news agency reported.
Juventus was relegated to Serie B and docked nine points in the scandal, while AC Milan, Fiorentina, Lazio and Reggina each received point penalties in Serie A.
Referee selectors Paolo Bergamo and Pierluigi Pairetto also were among those prosecutors want to bring to trial, along with referees Massimo De Santis, Salvatore Racalbuto and Pasquale Rodomonti.
The accusations range from conspiring to commit a crime to sporting fraud.
The prosecutors cited suspicious results in 29 Serie A matches in the 2004-05 season, ANSA said.
