Luigi Sartor, former international with the Italian national soccer team, has been arrested by the Police for growing 106 marijuana plants in a greenhouse, enough to produce a total of two kilos of drug. The suspicions came after power consumption doubled in a supposedly abandoned cabin on the outskirts of Parma. Actually the former defender, 46 years old, who was arrested along with an accomplice, is under house arrest, after he appeared before Judge Beatrice Purita and kept silent on the charges brought about drug possession and trafficking.
According to the Italian press, the investigators had been investigating the activity that took place inside that apparently uninhabited cabin for some time, but for which the doubling of meter power. In addition, at night, from the cracks in the building the lights of the interior lighting were shining and a particular smell could be perceived outside.
Since he retired from professional football, where he defended the colors of Juventus, Inter, Roma and Parma, Luigi Sartor has had more than one conflict with the Justice, such as the sports fraud that broke out in 2011 in Italian football due to the sports betting fraud, a case known as the ‘Calcioscommesse’ that was initiated by the Cremona Prosecutor's Office.