In April 2007 the Italian daily La Repubblica disclosed some new details about the Calciopoli affair. Naples prosecutors were able to find out a series of telephone calls, through foreign SIM cards between Moggi, Bergamo, Pairetto and several referees. Since the conversations were through foreign SIM cards, the Italian police could not tap them: they could only try to match together phone numbers, numbers called and places. The SIM cards had been purchased in a store in Chiasso (Switzerland). Some SIM cards would be Swiss SIM cards registered to the store owner's family, while some other would be some anonymous coming from Liechtenstein. The prosecutors also discovered the use of a Slovenian SIM card. They involved in this investigations Moggi, Pairetto, Bergamo, Fabiani (Messina sporting director), the referees De Santis, Racalbuto, Paparesta, Pieri, Cassarà, Dattilo, Bertini, Gabriele and the assistant Ambrosino. According to this investigation, Paparesta used the Swiss SIM card also for personal use, and this helped the prosecutors to discover this secret communication channel. Apparently, Moggi had five foreign SIM cards, of which two had to be used to communicate with Bergamo and Pairetto, while the other had to be used to communicate with the referees and Fabiani. [28]
Investigating on those SIM cards, the prosecutors discovered some worrying details. During the 24 hours preceding the match Juventus-A.C. Milan, one of the most important matches of that championship, played on 18th December 2004, they discovered a series of 13 telephone calls between Moggi and Bertini, the referee of that match. They also discovered a series of 18 telephone calls between Bertini and Fabiani and another 11 between Fabiani and Moggi. According to the prosecutors, Fabiani would be the "instigator", the intermediary between Moggi and the referees. The match finally resulted in a goalless draw and all the press severely criticized Bertini for not allowing two clear penalties to A.C. Milan and for a perceived clemence with regard to Juventus. [29]
Moreover, recently another wiretapping was unveiled by the Italian daily La Stampa. It's nothing really compromising, anyway in that wiretapping Moggi and Marcello Lippi (former trainer of Juventus and trainer of the Italian national team at the time) clearly insult Inter's president (Massimo Moratti) and trainer (Roberto Mancini). In the call, finally Lippi says that Mancini deserves a lesson, and Moggi answers that Mancini will have such lesson. [30]
On 26th April 2007 La Repubblica's web site published about two hundred audio files of the wiretappings, some published one year before in the written form and some never published. This can allow readers to perceive tones and forms of the conversations as well.[31]
A.C. Milan, originally ejected from the 2006-07 UEFA Champions League due to the scandal, ironically went on to win the competition on 23rd May 2007.
On 17th June 2007 in the Italian show Qui Studio A Voi Stadio, a popular soccer show broadcast by the local TV Telelombardia, based in Milan, Bergamo admitted that Moggi actually gave two Swiss SIM cards to Pairetto, and Pairetto gave one of those SIM cards to him. Anyway, Bergamo stated that, on suspicion of being tapped, he used that SIM card only to communicate with Pairetto and that, after the exhaustion of the credit, he did not use the SIM card anymore.
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