According to the latest report from La Gazzetta dello Sport, the alleged financial fraud case involving Aurelio De Laurentiis may return to the preliminary hearing stage.

Reports indicate that the Napoli president is accused by the Rome Public Prosecutor’s Office of falsifying financial statements for the fiscal years 2019, 2020, and 2021.

In this case, SSC Napoli and the club’s general manager Andrea Chiavelli have also been listed as defendants. During the first hearing before the Ninth Collegial Chamber of the Rome Court, Napoli raised an objection, arguing that the decree issued on November 20 last year, along with subsequent documents, should be considered absolutely null and void due to alleged failure of proper notification.

Napoli’s lawyer Lorenzo Contrada requested that the documents be referred back to the preliminary hearing judge and called for procedural consistency in the handling of the case. It is understood that prosecutor Lorenzo Del Giudice also considers the request to have merit.

The court is set to rule on the matter and will revisit the issue at the hearing scheduled for May 20. If the objection is upheld, the case could be reassigned to a different preliminary hearing judge.

The investigation centers on alleged artificial capital gains to two transfer deals: Kostas Manolas’ move from AS Roma to Napoli in the summer of 2019, and the 2020 signing of striker Victor Osimhen from LOSC Lille.

It is reported that the list of witnesses to be submitted includes Osimhen himself, Napoli’s former sporting director Cristiano Giuntoli, as well as several players involved in the inter-club transactions.

Among the players under scrutiny are Orestis Karnezis, Luigi Liguori, Claudio Manzi, and Ciro Palmieri, who were sent to Lille as part of the Osimhen deal, with their valuations reportedly lacking sporting justification.