According to Tasnim news agency, Alessandro Florentzi has been questioned for allegedly operating in illegal betting sites, and meanwhile, the Italian Football Federation is monitoring the legal process of dealing with this player’s possible violation from afar, so as to deal with him if proven.
Last night (Wednesday), some Italian sources claimed that the 32-year-old player has been prosecuted by the public prosecutor’s office of Turin for making illegal bets. It seems that the accusation against this player is similar to what was attributed to Niccolo Zaniolo, a player of the English team Stone Villa; It means that the bets made by Florentzi are related to gambling on card games and not on football matches. Therefore, there is a possibility that a heavy punishment will not be issued for the former Roma player.
Meanwhile, the previous defendants in this case, including Niccolò Fajoli from Juventus and Sandro Tonali from Newcastle, have been suspended for seven and 10 months, respectively, for admitting to betting on football matches.
According to Gazzetta dello Sport, the prosecutor of the Italian Football Federation, Giuseppe Kine, is not surprised that Florenzi was accused of betting, but to make a decision about him, he is waiting for the results of the Milan right-back trial, which will be held in the coming days.
If the court proves that Florenzi’s bets were also made on football matches, he will be banned for a long time (in fact, longer than Fajoli and Tonali’s bans if he does not admit to the violation) but if his violation is limited to betting on games Carty, like Zaniolo, will only be fined a small amount.