By Obaloluwa Joshua, LAGOS
Napoli President Aurelio De Laurentiis will face trial after an Italian court said he and other officials falsified the figures in the transfer of Victor Osimhen from Lille five years ago.
De Laurentiis and other top Napoli officials will begin trial on September 2, 2026.
Osimhen’s transfer involved player exchanges and these were inflated.
According to the public prosecutor’s office, Napoli used fictitious capital gains and accounting manipulations to falsify the club’s financial statements, a version firmly rejected by De Laurentiis, who, according to La Gazzetta, never attended the hearings
The Italian daily newspaper reported comments from the three lawyers of the Napoli owner.
“We are absolutely astonished,” said lawyers Gaetano Scalise, Fabio Fulgeri and Lorenzo Contrada.
“There were clear grounds to acquit the defendants. The Guardia di Finanza misapplied accounting principles, and even the public prosecutors stated that Napoli did not obtain any advantage from these operations.”
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