The announcement had the effect of a bomb, both in Italy and throughout Europe. This Monday, the Gazzetta dello Sport
indicated that the financial police and the Milan public prosecutor’s office had dismantled a vast prostitution network. An illicit organization offered formulas “all inclusive” to wealthy clients, ranging from parties in the city’s posh clubs to paid sexual services to drug use.
At least seventy Serie A footballers then appealed to the events agency behind the events. The total amount of money collected by the company would thus amount to more than 1.2 million euros, while the four people suspected of being the leaders of the organization were arrested for “complicity and exploitation of prostitution, as well as money laundering”as the pink paper newspaper explains.
This Wednesday,
Il Giornale obtained the names of the seventy players – mainly from AC Milan, Inter Milan and Juventus Turin – identified by investigators through wiretaps. The latter are not subject to prosecution, given that no offense has been committed under Italian justice.
Achraf Hakimi, Olivier Giroud, Jérémy Menez…
Among them are, in particular, the right side of Paris Saint-Germain Achraf Hakimi, his former teammate Milan Skriniar, but also Olivier Giroud, Rafael Leao, Philippe Coutinho, Daniel Maldini, Jérémy Menez and the ex-Marseillais Nuno Tavares. All would have used the services of the company, or simply contacted it, as recalled Il Gironale.
The Moroccan finds himself entangled in a new scandal, after being sent to trial before the criminal court on February 24 for a rape case dating back to February 2023.
