Moggi 6-yr sentence asked

| Wed, 11/12/2008 - 03:24

Rome prosecutors on Tuesday asked for a six-year sentence for former Juventus general manager Luciano Moggi on charges of manipulating the transfer market.

A five-year term was sought for Moggi's son Alessandro in connection with the activities of GEA World, a players' management agency run by Alessandro Moggi,

Prosecutors are seeking a 16-month penalty for Davide Lippi, the son of Italy's World Cup-winning coach Marcello Lippi, who worked at the agency.

GEA World's former CEO, Francesco Zavaglia, is facing a three-and-a-half year term while prosecutors have requested terms of 26 months and eight months for two staffers

Moggi, his son and Zavaglia are accused of gaining an illegal hold over the Serie A transfer market by intimidating players into dropping their existing agents and signing up with GEA.

The other three defendants, including Lippi, are accused of aiding and abetting.

All six deny wrongdoing.

Moggi said Monday in his final defence statement that he did nothing wrong.

The once-powerful Juve executive, who was banned by the Italian Soccer Federation for five years in the Calciopoli match-fixing scandal that rocked Italian soccer in 2006, pledged that he would never return to the soccer world.

A sentence is expected to be returned in January.

In a criminal case stemming from Calciopoli, Moggi and 24 others are set to stand trial in Naples in January.

They deny the charges.

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