EXCLUSIVE! POLICE RAID NAPOLI,LILLE OFFICE OVER ALLEGE FRAUD IN OSIMHEN TRANSFER DEAL

The Victor Osimhens switch saga is again within the information as Napoli and LOSC places of work had been reportedly raided and President Aurelio De Laurentiis investigated for attainable fraud within the switch.

In line with Il Mattino, La Repubblica, Sky Sport Italia and others, police raided Napoli and Lille places of work in Naples, Rome and France yesterday as a part of the investigation.

The deal has lengthy been a reason for controversy, because the official €70m switch plus €10m in bonuses charge was solely circa €50m in money, the opposite €20m made up of goalkeeper Orestis Karnezis and three youth staff gamers Luigi Liguori, Claudio Manzi and Ciro Palmieri.

The worth of the youth staff gamers instantly raised eyebrows, as a result of they got vastly inflated costs on the switch market.

This brought on much more controversy when the three gamers by no means really wore the Lille jersey, as they had been instantly loaned out to Serie C sides and their contracts had been merely terminated a yr later freed from cost.

The gamers went to the media complaining the deal had ruined their careers they usually had been used as pawns in a bigger transaction used to bolster the funds of each Napoli and Lille.

Mike Cookey