(ANSA) – ROME, – Napoli Chairman Aurelio de Laurentiis is being probed by Naples prosecutors for alleged false accounting in relation to the transfers of four players, including the 2020 acquisition of Nigeria forward Victor Osimhen, sources said on Tuesday.
Laurentiis’s wife, his son, his daughter and other senior club officials are also under investigation, the sources said.
Osimhen, 23, moved to Naples from Lille in a reported club record 70-million-euro transfer.
Finance police staged searches in Naples and Rome to gather evidence for the probe and similar operations took place in France in the basis of a warrant by the Naples prosecutors.
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