Monday 14 December, 2009
Antonio Giraudo, the Juventus chief executive from July 1994 to May 2006, has been sentenced to a three-year jail term by the Calciopoli trial in Naples.
Eduardo De Gregorio, the trial's chief prosecutor, found Giraudo guilty of conspiracy to commit a crime for his part in the 2006 Calciopoli scandal which resulted in Juventus being relegated to Serie B.
The trial's original prosecutors Giuseppe Narducci and Filippo Beatrice initially asked for Giraudo to receive a five-year sentence.
Giraudo wasn't the only one to be sentenced. Former referee Tiziano Pieri has been condemned to two years and four months plus a €22,000 fine.
The former President of the Italian Linesman Association Tulio Lanese was also given a two-year jail term along with Paolo Dondarini, another referee.

