Moggi: 'Inter lobbied referees'

By Football Italia staff

Former Juventus director Luciano Moggi is celebrating after winning a legal battle, as it’s ruled ex-Inter President Giacinto Facchetti was “lobbying referees.”

The Calciopoli scandal of 2006 saw Juve demoted to Serie B, while Milan, Lazio, Fiorentina, Reggina and Arezzo were also penalised.

Juventus were stripped of two Serie A titles, but while the 2004-05 Scudetto went unassigned, the 2005-06 edition was handed to Inter – the next club down the standings without a penalty.

Moggi was sued by Gianfelice Facchetti, the son of deceased former Inter President Giacinto Facchetti, for defamation after claims the Nerazzurri chief had lobbied referees during the same period.

Disgraced official Moggi is today crowing in his column in Libero newspaper that he won his legal battle with Gianfelice Facchetti, as the judges agreed with the first degree ruling that Inter had been “lobbying referees.”

Moggi noted “no newspapers covered the news, and yet this sentence is worth as much as the Tribunal in Naples, where at the time of Calciopoli Inter were wilfully left out of the investigation because Major Auricchio explicitly stated to an assistant that he was not interested in Inter.”

The Nerazzurri and specifically Facchetti were also found to have lobbied referees in another FIGC investigation in 2011, but no further action could be taken because the statute of limitations had already expired.

Giacinto Facchetti died in September 2006 after a long illness.

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