MILAN (AFP) – Fabrizio Miccoli, a former Italy worldwide footballer, has been sentenced to jail for his function within the extortion of a nightclub proprietor together with a son of a reputed Sicilian Mafia boss.
Italy’s highest court docket of enchantment confirmed to AFP that Miccoli’s preliminary 2017 conviction and sentence had been upheld, which means three years and 6 months in jail for making an attempt to assist a good friend get well a €12,000 (S$18,400) debt by utilizing a “Mafia technique”.
The Gazzetta Dello Sport studies that the 42-year-old has handed himself in at Rovigo jail, round 60km from Venice.
Miccoli’s sentence – already upheld in an preliminary enchantment in January final 12 months – pertains to an affair that dates again to 2010.
The court docket dominated that the then-captain of Palermo contacted Mauro Lauricella, son of alleged mob boss Antonino Lauricella, to attempt to reclaim the owed cash from the proprietor of a membership situated exterior Palermo.
The pair had been judged to have used violence and threats to be able to get well the debt for Giorgio Gasparini, a former physio at Palermo.
Lauricella junior was sentenced final month to seven years in jail for his function within the crime by the identical appeals court docket.
Across the time the accusations got here to mild in 2013, Italian each day La Repubblica revealed wiretapped conversations during which Miccoli known as murdered anti-mafia decide Giovanni Falcone “filth”.
Falcone, a nationwide hero in Italy for the way in which he and long-time good friend Paolo Borsellino fought the Sicilian Mafia, was killed alongside along with his spouse and three police escorts in an enormous bomb blast in Capaci, exterior Palermo in 1992.
He and Borsellino, who was additionally assassinated by the Mafia in one other bomb assault just a few weeks later, convicted over 300 mobsters in Italy’s first “Maxi Trial”, which led to early 1992.
Striker Miccoli is Palermo’s all-time prime goalscorer and likewise performed for Juventus and Fiorentina in Serie A.
He performed 10 occasions for Italy in 2003 and 2004, netting twice.