Court: Statute of limitations expired for doc
30-Mar-2007
*ROME (AP)* - Italy's highest court ruled Thursday that the statute of
limitations had expired on sporting fraud charges against a Juventus team
doctor and the club's chief executive accused of doping, news reports said.
Prosecutors made its final appeal to the Court of Cassation after a Turin
appeals court on Dec. 14, 2005 overturned the conviction of physician
Riccardo Agricola and upheld the acquittal of chief executive Antonio
Giraudo in the case.
Agricola originally was convicted of administering banned substances,
including the hormone EPO, to Juventus players from 1994-98. He was handed a
suspended sentence of 22 months in November 2004.
Giraudo was acquitted in the case, but prosecutors appealed the verdict to
the Turin court.
The high court said the prosecutors were justified in appealing the previous
decisions, but that the statute of limitations on the charges had expired,
the ANSA and Apcom news agencies reported.
The high court ruling closes a high-profile case that began in 1998 after
allegations by then-AS Roma coach Zdenek Zeman.
Juventus has been one of Italy's most successful and popular teams but its
reputation was tarnished in last year's match-fixing scandal. The scandal
saw Juventus stripped of its past two Serie A titles and demoted to the
second division with a nine-point penalty.
*Source(text): Associated Press* *Source(images): ANSA*
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