Inter Milan to sue Moggi
2006-07-17 17:47
Rome - Inter Milan will sue former
Juventus general manager Luciano Moggi for comments he made
about their president in a newspaper interview, Inter owner
Massimo Moratti said on Monday.
Moggi, at the centre of a match-fixing scandal that has
rocked Italian football, said in the interview with daily
Repubblica that Inter were unfairly trying to take the moral
high ground in the scandal which has engulfed Juve, AC Milan,
Lazio and Fiorentina.
Moggi's intercepted phone conversations formed the basis of
the initial match-fixing investigation. On Friday, he was banned
from soccer for five years and handed a 50 000 euro fine.
Moggi, who denies any wrongdoing, said it was not fair that
he should be singled out as the central player in the scandal
and accused Inter president Giacinto Facchetti of a series of
illicit dealings.
But Moratti said in comments published on Inter's official
website: "These are the words of desperate people...Facchetti
above all, and we at Inter, will sue Moggi because we have
nothing to do with this and these things should not even be
thought of."
Moratti also reiterated his call for last season's Serie A
title to be awarded to Inter, who have not been involved in the
biggest scandal in European soccer for decades.
The soccer tribunal investigating the match-fixing
allegations relegated champions Juventus to second division
Serie B on Friday and stripped them of their last two titles.
Ex-champions Fiorentina and Lazio were also demoted to Serie
B. Milan stay in Serie A but are barred from European
competition next season and start with a 15-point penalty.
The final verdicts will come after the appeals procedure.