A new scandal hits Italian soccer as the Italian football Soccer Federation has announced that three Serie A clubs have been charged with falsifying accounts in order to meet the financial requirements to register for past championships. A statement on the Italian Federation website said on Thursday that the chief executives of all three clubs have also been charged along with three senior directors. Genoa president Enrico Preziosi and Udinese chief executive Franco Soldati are accused of “stipulating contracts for rights to player services with far higher values that those really attributable to those rights”. While Reggina President Pasquale Foti is accused of making an overestimation of the transfer fees. Inter Milan and AC Milan were charged over a similar case in February and a decision is expected very soon. Italian soccer has been rocked with series of scandals since the match-fixing scandal in 2006.
