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.
35 top Italian soccer clubs under probe over alleged tax fraud
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.