ROME (Reuters) - Italy's soccer federation (FIGC) has fined Juventus, its most successful team, over an alleged scheme of giving tickets to hardcore fans to buy peace in the club's terraces. FIGC had fined the club 300,000 euros (263,622.92 pounds) and given further fines and temporary bans to four of its executives including president Andrea Agnelli, it said in a statement on Monday. Investigators had been looking into whether the club gave tickets to fans known as ultras to avoid violence or racial abuse in the stands that might bring fines or docked points. "It is no mystery that the entire management was committed to repairing relations with the ultras," the ruling read. When he met alleged mobster Rocco Dominello -- who has denied any wrongdoing -- Agnelli was "totally unaware" of any illegality, the court wrote in its ruling.

Source: The Star September 25, 2017 17:03 UTC