Luciano Moggi cleared of slandering late Inter president Facchetti

Former Juventus director Luciano Moggi was cleared of his slander charge against former Inter president Giacinto Facchetti.

On TV show “Notti Magiche” in 2010, Moggi had accused the late Inter president — who died in 2006 — of making calls with requests for referees for an Coppa Italia match against Cagliari.

Moggi had himself faced those accusations in the Calciopoli match-fixing scandal, allegedly at the centre of a plot to influence refereeing assignments.

Moggi’s 28-month jail term for alleged criminal association was thrown out last March however, after the statute of limitations expired.

This newest trial had stemmed from a complaint lodged by Gianfelice Facchetti, one of the former Inter president’s children, when the prosecutor had ordered that Moggi be fined €10,000. However, a court in Milan acquitted the 78-year-old of the slander charge.

The 2006 Calciopoli scandal had seen Juventus stripped of two Serie A titles and Moggi banned from football for five years and, when the suspension ran out, the Federtation of Italian Football (FIGC) extending it to the rest of his life.