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Italian football club Juventus hit with points penalty

The club denied wrongdoing and was initially cleared by the sports court in April last year [File: Massimo Pinca/AP Photo]

Italy’s most storied football club Juventus has been hit with a massive 15-point penalty for false accounting following an appeal hearing at the Italian football federation.

Juventus were accused of using capital gains – the positive difference between purchase and sale values net of amortisation and write-downs – from a series of player exchanges in which little or no money passed between clubs.

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