According to the judges of the VI criminal section of the Naples court, the Monza defender is guilty of having influenced the 2013-2014 championship match between Modena-Avellino (1-0)
The judges of the VI criminal section of the Court of Naples sentenced Armando Izzo to 5 years for external competition in a mafia association and sports fraud. The Monza defender had been involved in an investigation into football betting and organized crime and the judges increased the sentence requested by the prosecutor of Naples Maurizio De Marco by two months, during his indictment.
The process
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The first requests for a conviction were made 6 years ago and Izzo’s cousin, Umberto Accursio, head of one of the clans active in the Secondigliano area, and Salvatore Russo, linked to the same clan, were also found guilty together with Izzo. For them the sentence is one and a half years. The facts that led to the conviction are linked to when he played for Avellino, in Serie B. Izzo is accused of having influenced the 2013-2014 championship match between Modena-Avellino (1-0) with two teammates, Francesco Millesi and Luca Pini, in turn defendants in another proceeding. According to the accused, the three had “placed themselves permanently at the disposal” of the clan to “act as intermediary and bribe professional players for the purpose of fraudulently influencing the results of the Serie B championship football matches, events on which the top exponents of the vanella they bet by investing the illicit proceeds of the association”.
The net
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According to the reconstruction of the substitute prosecutor Maurizio De Marco, the brothers Antonio and Umberto Accursio would have promised and then delivered 30 thousand euros to Francesco Millesi to bribe other players. All with the intermediation of Salvatore Russo. Thus Millesi would have exerted his influence on other Avellino players to favor the Modena goal: this was the agreement. In addition, Antonio Accursio on behalf of the clan made a bet of 400,000 euros on the goal scored by the team playing at home (Modena), with a profit of 60,000 euros. In the charges, the prosecutor writes that Armando Izzo would have accepted the promise of a sum as “compensation in order to achieve a result other than that resulting from the correct and fair conduct of the competition”. According to investigations, the agreement dates back to May 14, 2014, three days before the Modena-Avellino match. In 2017, the first conviction for Izzo (who played for Genoa at the time) arrived. Izzo was acquitted, however, of the charge of having committed similar offenses alleged for the Avellino-Reggina football match, played on May 25, 2014 (same championship)
May 4, 2023 (change May 4, 2023 | 18:21)
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