Case against Moggi "has crumbled"

More telephone wiretaps are released featuring Luciano Spalletti, as Luciano Moggi’s lawyers argue the Calciopoli case against Juventus “has crumbled.”

Moggi’s legal team continues to release new evidence to the media ahead of the trial in Naples, which resumes on April 13.

“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.

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.

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.

“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.

“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.”

This week Juventus released a statement confirming they would evaluate the outcome of the trial and demand ‘equal treatment.’

“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.

This evening Moggi’s lawyers released more wiretapped telephone conversations that were ignored in the 2006 Calciopoli trial.

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.

“Unless there are some sudden turnarounds, I have already chosen the linesmen for you,” said Bergamo.

“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.”

The designator then wished Spalletti luck and ended with the phrase: “Come on now, we can do it.”
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