Hamburg/Rome - Inter Milan may have illegally used
Diego Milito and Thiago Motto in the past triple-winning season because their contracts were not vaild, the Italian football federation (FIGC) confirmed on Saturday.
The FIGC spokesman Paolo Cordi told German Press Agency dpa that Genoa president Enrico Preziosi had no business licence when he signed the transfer documents in the move of Milito and Motta from Genoa to Inter in 2009.
Cordi said that Preziosi and Inter president Massimo Moratti will have to stand trial before a sports court in Rome over the issue in July. He said a deputy should have signed the contracts on behalf of Genoa.
If worse comes to worst,
Inter could lose the Champions League, Serie A and Italian cup titles they won in the past season and be relegated. However, Cordi said he did not expect such a ruling.
The Argentina forward Milito scored both goals as Inter beat
Bayern Munich 2-0 in the Champions League final. Motta, a Brazilian midfielder, was suspended for the game.
Cordi's statements confirmed a report from Saturday's edition of the Hamburger Morgenpost daily.
The daily said that the FIGC had stripped Preziosi of his licencein 2008 and that a sports commission had informed the federation several months ago that the contracts of Milito and Motta were not valid.