The Milan Prosecutor's Office has concluded the investigations against Fabrizio Corona for aggravated defamation after the heavy accusations from Stephan El Shaarawy, Nicolò Casale and Nicola Zalewski.
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Corona towards the trial
All three footballers had been implicated by Fabrizio Corona in the betting scandal, accused by the former photo agent. Based on the complaints filed, in particular, by El Shaarawy and Casale, they have been registered for aggravated defamation by press, in the investigation of the public prosecutor Pasquale Addesso, also the director of the satirical news Antonio Ricci and the correspondent Valerio Staffelli.
The notice of conclusion of investigations, also signed by the prosecutor Marcello Viola and notified today, also concerns Luca Arnau of the online newspaper Dillinger, on which Corona has made several names of footballers involved, according to his reconstruction, in the alleged scandal, including those of Zaniolo, Tonali and Fagioli, investigated by the Turin Prosecutor's Office. Once the investigation is closed, a summons to court could arrive for Fabrizio Corona.
The words of El Shaarawy's lawyer
«It is positive news and we had serenely taken it for granted from the first minute, so clear was and is Stephan's extraneousness». This is how lawyer Matteo Uslenghi, who assists Roma's forward Stephan El Shaarawy, together with lawyer Federico Venturi Ferriolo, commented on the news of the closure of the investigation by the Milan Prosecutor's Office for aggravated defamation against Fabrizio Corona and other suspects. «Although I am not inclined to expose myself publicly, my reaction can only be very firm. What happened was, without mincing words, a defamatory operation and, even worse, surgically orchestrated», the Giallorossi attacker wrote last October in the complaint, which was taken over by the adjunct Letizia Mannella and by prosecutor Marcello Viola, who then assigned the investigation to the public prosecutor Pasquale Addesso. The same prosecutor also received the complaints from Nicolò Casale, assisted by lawyer Guido Furgiuele, and Nicola Zalewski.
The former photo agent, in fact, in those weeks had released on the Dillingernews.it site, on social media and on some TVs the names of footballers involved, according to him, in the betting case. El Shaarawy and Casale, in particular, had been implicated in the affair of alleged bets on illegal platforms, by the former king of the paparazzi on Striscia la Notizia, last October 18. The name of Zalewski, on the other hand, had been made on Dillingernews. The Milanese prosecutors, among other things, in these months have also coordinated with their colleagues in Turin to verify that the names of the three footballers were not in the acts of the Turin investigation. And this also because the former photo agent in that investigation was heard as a person informed about the facts and in recent months had mentioned names of footballers actually investigated in the Piedmontese investigation.
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