Cuadrado, Chiellini and Bonucci appear before the Turin Prosecutor’s Office

The Colombian John Square and the italians Giorgio Chiellini and Leonardo Bonucci appeared this Monday at the Turin Prosecutor’s Office (Italy) in relation to the investigation carried out by the Italian financial police on possible falsehood in the accounts of the Juventus in fiscal year 2020.

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In March 2020, the black and white entity reached an agreement with the players by which they renounced four months of their salary, so the club’s budget was not so damaged in the midst of the Covid-19 pandemic.

However, according to Italian media, the agreement would not be a salary waiver, but a postponement of payment for three of the four months, an action that would have meant savings for the Juventus by not having included the deferred salary as a debt in his economic balance and having paid the amounts to the players through private agreements.

Square He was the first to go, around 10 in the morning, to answer questions from the prosecutors in the case, known as ‘Prisma’.

Two hours later, the captain of the black and white team appeared, Chielliniwho -according to local media reports- spent about two hours inside the building. Bonucci He came around 3:30 p.m.

Dybala, Sandro and Bernardeschi have already been questioned

Other players like the Argentine Paulo Dybala, alex sandro and Federico Bernardeschi they were already questioned at the end of March. It is expected that more players will come to clarify to the competent bodies this wage reduction maneuver that involves club managers, including the president Andrea Agnelli and the vice president, the Czech Pavel Nedved.

The prosecutor’s office is carrying out an investigation into the ‘Vecchia Signora’ that began at the end of last year due to irregularities in the sale of players, to which is now added this new edge on the payment of the players’ salaries, but the footballers who appear before the Prosecutors only talk about the latter, about what is related to the issue of salary resignation in March 2020.