Blog Front Page: Calciopoli: The Truth Shall Set Juventus Free!

Moggi's representatives have finally unearthed phone taps that TIM-Telecom and Italian authorities had not handed to the courts for investigation in 2006.

Wiretaps of Inter President Massimo Moratti speaking with refereeing designators now form an integral part of Luciano Moggi’s civil trial. Moggi, the former director general of Juventus and considered by most as the great power behind Calciopoli, is at the center of an ongoing trial into the same incidents that has endured numerous delays.

“Quite simply either everyone is innocent or everyone is guilty. In my view, everyone is innocent,” declared Moggi after today’s dramatic court session. Maybe not everybody expected these developments. I invite everyone to think carefully and reflect on the matter.”

Moggi will try to prove that he was not pulling the strings of Italian football by communicating with the refereeing designators that favored Juventus explicitly. He has always maintained that he was but one of many executives who regularly spoke to officials as part of his role with the club and acted only to protect Juve's cause.

This is why events became as dramatic as they did today - with the release of transcripts of a wiretapped conversation between Inter President Moratti and designator Paolo Bergamo.

“Moggi was accused of violating Article 1, which represents fair play,” explained lawyer Prioreschi. “I ask the FIGC and the Naples Tribunal why this same action was not taken against Moratti when the designator asks him if he likes the referee assigned to his match, after having asked the same of Giacinto Facchetti?

“On Tuesday we will ask for transcripts of all the wiretapped calls that were inexplicably ignored during the preliminary investigation. Essentially Calciopoli took different approaches to different people for the same incidents. In the phone calls there is talk of meetings and dinners between Moratti, Facchetti and Bergamo. So why was that not even transcribed when the police had a stakeout to film the dinner between Diego Della Valle and Bergamo?”

The incriminating phrase in the wiretap is from designator Bergamo himself, ahead of a Coppa Italia match with Bologna, which ended 3-1 to Inter on January 13, 2005.

“Seeing as there is no draw for the referees, but a direct designation, I have sent you Gabriele. I made sure he will be accompanied by two very good assistants.”

Bergamo has hit back at the accusations of wrongdoing, but at the same time suggests that Moggi is right to claim everyone is innocent in the Calciopoli scandal.

“I’m not remotely surprised at these conversations, I've always said that I would speak to everyone,” said the former refereeing designator. “I’ve been told there is another conversation in which we both compliment Bertini after his performance in a game between Inter and Sampdoria.

This new evidence has been provided by Luciano Moggi’s lawyers who went through the thousands of transcribed recordings that might shed new light at the Calciopoli trial in Naples.