Police step up Inter transfer probe with new search

Milan, Feb 8, 2022 (AFP) - An investigation into Inter Milan's transfer activity moved forward on Tuesday after Italian police got their hands on documents for a new set of deals.

The Italian Football Federation (FIGC) confirmed to AFP that finance police took files from the game's supervisory commission COVISOC regarding dozens of transfers carried out by a number of clubs including Inter between 2019 and last year.

Inter had already announced in December that they had given investigators documents relating to player sales in the 2017/18 and 2018/19 seasons, with prosecutors in Milan wanting to "verify the regular accounting of the related capital gains".

The move by police to get documents from COVISOC was part of the same probe.

Transfers in Italian football have been under the microscope since the FIGC launched its own investigation into a series of suspicious deals in October.

The majority of the transfers being looked at by the FIGC involve Juventus, who are also being investigated by prosecutors in Turin for allegedly making false communications to investors and issuing invoices for non-existent transactions.

That probe regards some 282 million euros ($319.2 million) of capital gains declared in Juve's accounts from the past three seasons on a host of transfers.