The scandal of Serie A football players involved in illegal betting deepens. According to the media beyond the Adriatic, it is not only Fagioli, Zanioli, Tonali and Zaleuski, while it is thought that the number of footballers who have made tax evasion and participated in illegal bets (placed also for their teams) is even greater.
The “bomb” was broken by Fabrizio Corona, the man known to the paparazzi in Italy and a well-known personality. In a conversation with “Corrierre Dello Sport”, Corona reveals that there are six clubs and ten other footballers involved, without touching Serie B here.
“Know that at least 10 other footballers are involved, 5-6 football agents and clubs, there are also clandestine gambling dens. This investigation will shake Italy. How many football teams are involved? Five or six. I can’t to mention the names, otherwise I will also be investigated”, said Corona.
As for the source of the information, he said that he is the uncle of a former Inter player at the time of Mourinho, who then also opened such a business when he saw the great involvement of footballers in this activity.
“We will show other names and reveal our source of the news. He is the uncle of a former Inter player of Mourinho’s, a close friend of Mario Balotelli. Mario is a friend of mine, he has been here many times, he is shocked by the evidence I gave him. The uncle said his nephew had moved to Rome and then opened a gambling den,” explains Corona.
Gambling is not a crime (however it is prohibited if bets are placed with bookmakers not authorized by the Italian state), but the article in question specifies the prohibition “for subjects of the federal system, for managers, for members of societies belonging to the professional sector to decide or accept bets, directly or indirectly, also by parties authorized to receive them, which have as their object results in relation to official matches organized within the framework of FIGC, FIFA and UEFA”.
