Italy
Italian finance police has seized assets worth 12 million euros as part of an investigation into alleged large-scale tax evasion involving 35 Italian soccer clubs, judicial sources said on Tuesday.
Lazio and Napoli Presidents Claudio Lotito and Aurelio De Laurentiis, Milan vice-President Adriano Galliani, PSG winger Ezequiel Lavezzi and Modena Coach Hernan Crespo were named among the 64 people being probed.
Dubbed operation “Offside”, the scam affects a total of 35 clubs, a statement of the prosecutor of the city of Naples.
Milan and Napoli declined to comment., and a spokesman for Lazio said he was not aware of any ongoing probe.
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