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Moggi gets 5-year-plus sentence in Italian scandal

The Columbian
Published: November 7, 2011, 4:00pm

NAPLES, Italy (AP) — Former Juventus executive Luciano Moggi has been sentenced to five years, four months in prison by a Naples court for his role in the 2006 Italian match-fixing scandal.

Prosecutors were seeking a sentence of five years, eight months for Moggi on charges of criminal association aimed at committing sports fraud.

Another former Juventus executive, Antonio Giraudo, already received a three-year sentence and has appealed.

The biggest corruption case in Italian soccer caused Juventus to be stripped of the 2005 and 2006 Serie A titles and relegated to Serie B by a sports court.

Moggi was not expected to be ordered to prison before his appeals process runs out.

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