Former Juventus president Andrea Agnelli has been handed a suspended sentence of 1 year and 8 months in a plea bargain deal sanctioned by a Roman court. The ruling, part of the so-called “Prisma” case involving false accounting and inflated capital gains, spares him actual prison time, given the nature of the judicial agreement under Italian law.
The plea bargain also saw reduced sentences for other former Juventus executives. Ex-vice president Pavel Nedved was given a 1 year and 2 month suspended sentence, while former sporting director Fabio Paratici received a 1 year and 6 month suspension. The club itself was fined approximately €156,000 in the settlement.
Importantly, this is not a standard conviction that forces jail time. Under Italian legal procedure, the plea bargain (known as “patteggiamento”) allows a reduction and suspension of sentence, often without finding criminal guilt in the usual trial process. As a result, Agnelli will not serve prison time unless further legal conditions compel serving the sentence.
The case centers on allegations that during Agnelli’s tenure, Juventus manipulated accounting practices—particularly around player trading—to produce fictitious capital gains and distort declared financial results. The practice reportedly included inflating transfer values to bolster balance sheets and mask losses during the COVID-19 period.
The verdict also reopens scrutiny on Juventus’s previous sanctions and punishments. The club has already been penalized in Serie A for financial irregularities, including a 10-point deduction and fines in past seasons.
As for the transfer exchanges you mentioned— Miralem Pjanić for Arthur, and Marqués for Matheus Pereira—such deals have been part of earlier scrutiny into Juventus’s dealings, especially in how clubs value and swap players on paper. However, I could not confirm credible sources that Juventus lost 10 points + a fine specifically because of those exchanges with Barcelona. (There is a debt from Barcelona to Juventus over those deals: ~€9 million owed for Pjanić and Matheus, per transfer reports.)
In sum: Agnelli’s suspended sentence is real and stems from a formal plea deal in a false accounting case. Some historical transfer dealings are part of the broader financial scrutiny, but not all the claims (like automatic point losses for the swaps) are confirmed by reliable sources at this time.
Africa Digital News, New York
