[FONT=Arial,Helvetica,Geneva,Swiss,SunSans-Regular]More telephone wiretaps are released featuring Luciano Spalletti, as Luciano Moggi’s lawyers argue the Calciopoli case against Juventus “has crumbled.”
[/FONT] [FONT=Arial,Helvetica,Geneva,Swiss,SunSans-Regular]Moggi’s legal team continues to release new evidence to the media ahead of the trial in Naples, which resumes on April 13.
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[FONT=Arial,Helvetica,Geneva,Swiss,SunSans-Regular]“These items were already in the possession of investigators, we must only complain that they were not given the same due attention as the other transcripts,” said lawyer Paolo Trofino.
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[FONT=Arial,Helvetica,Geneva,Swiss,SunSans-Regular]The 2006 Calciopoli trial demoted Juventus to Serie B and stripped them of two titles, arguing Moggi was the puppet master in a network of influence over referees.
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[FONT=Arial,Helvetica,Geneva,Swiss,SunSans-Regular]However, his lawyers wish to prove in this new trial that the former Juve director general did nothing different to other club representatives in calling up designator Paolo Bergamo.
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[FONT=Arial,Helvetica,Geneva,Swiss,SunSans-Regular]“One of the main points of the prosecution, that Moggi was the head of this organisation, has crumbled because so many different directors would call up the designators.
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[FONT=Arial,Helvetica,Geneva,Swiss,SunSans-Regular]“Moggi has a 30-year friendship with Bergamo and the fact he was among those who rang him up cannot be considered evidence of wrongdoing.”
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[FONT=Arial,Helvetica,Geneva,Swiss,SunSans-Regular]This week Juventus released a statement confirming they would evaluate the outcome of the trial and demand ‘equal treatment.’
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[FONT=Arial,Helvetica,Geneva,Swiss,SunSans-Regular]“It’s not up to me to say, but in the light of what has since emerged, I think there is room not just for a procedural change of position, but also a moral one,” concluded Trofino.
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[FONT=Arial,Helvetica,Geneva,Swiss,SunSans-Regular]This evening Moggi’s lawyers released more wiretapped telephone conversations that were ignored in the 2006 Calciopoli trial.
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[FONT=Arial,Helvetica,Geneva,Swiss,SunSans-Regular]Former Roma boss Spalletti, who at the time on May 12 2005 was at the helm of Udinese, was recorded while speaking to refereeing designator Bergamo.
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[FONT=Arial,Helvetica,Geneva,Swiss,SunSans-Regular]“Unless there are some sudden turnarounds, I have already chosen the linesmen for you,” said Bergamo.
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[FONT=Arial,Helvetica,Geneva,Swiss,SunSans-Regular]“We’re sending you Pisacreta, who for us is the number one, and Griselli who has been the number one this season, so you’re completely protected.”
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[FONT=Arial,Helvetica,Geneva,Swiss,SunSans-Regular]The designator then wished Spalletti luck and ended with the phrase: “Come on now, we can do it.”[/FONT]