The official documents never directly charge Juventus with an Article 6 violation, which involves match-fixing. The same official documents from the scandal in 2006 state “there was no Moggi conspiracy”. Ironically at the time, speaking with the refereeing designators was not only legal, it was encouraged (as a way for each club to be able to voice its grievances)! However, the main charge was that Juventus maintained a “systematic influence over the refereeing designators”. The refereeing designators maintained all along that they had open communication with all team presidents, though Inter President Facchetti and Massimo Moratti repeatedly denied ever having contact with the refereeing designators.
Telecom Italia, the team that conducted the wiretaps, was run by a CEO who had been on Inter’s Board of Directors (CdA) for over a decade. Guido Rossi, the three-month long FIGC President given extraordinary powers for the scandal, was also on Inter’s Board of Directors for a significant period of time. Curiously, not even a year after the scandal, Telecom Italia’s CEO had resigned his position and became President of Pirelli, long-term Inter sponsors. And just who replaced him as Telecom Italia’s CEO? Guido Rossi!
Key prosecution witness Attilio Auricchio was interviewed in Moggi’s trial down in Naples, and stated that “key evidence that had been used to relegate Juventus had been lost”. When asked where the evidence had gone, he repeatedly commented “I don’t remember“. Auricchio, a former policeman implicated in electoral tampering years ago in Rome, had no answers to why the prosecution chose to omit nearly 120,000 wiretaps, only introducing 60,000. Moggi’s defense team had been pouring through these additional wiretaps, and Facchetti, Moratti, and Milan CEO Galliani all are caught involved in significant discussions with the referee designators, including ones revealing that the two referee designators had had dinner at Facchetti’s house.
