{"id":764589,"date":"2026-07-15T15:38:09","date_gmt":"2026-07-15T15:38:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/764589\/"},"modified":"2026-07-15T15:38:09","modified_gmt":"2026-07-15T15:38:09","slug":"gianluca-rocchi-prosecutors-ask-for-referee-sporting-fraud-case-to-be-dropped","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/764589\/","title":{"rendered":"Gianluca Rocchi: Prosecutors ask for referee sporting fraud case to be dropped"},"content":{"rendered":"

Prosecutors in Milan have requested that a sports fraud case against Gianluca Rocchi, the man in charge of assigning referees in Italy’s top flight, be dismissed.<\/p>\n

The former international referee suspended himself in April<\/a> after being placed under investigation for “complicity in sporting fraud” during the 2024-25 season.<\/p>\n

Rocchi, the National Referees Commission’s referee designator for Serie A and Serie B, has always protested his innocence.<\/p>\n

According to Italian news agency Ansa,, external<\/a> prosecutors concluded after a two-year inquiry that there was no evidence of match-fixing, saying they did not “identify a structured system aimed at interfering with appointments”.<\/p>\n

It was claimed that Rocchi was behind the selection of a referee for an Inter Milan game as he was “liked by Inter”. <\/p>\n

A video assistant referee decision not to intervene when an Inter player elbowed an opponent in another game was also under scrutiny.<\/p>\n

The simultaneous case against Inter has been dropped as well.<\/p>\n

Rocchi was also accused of pressuring a VAR official to encourage a referee to check on the pitchside monitor for a handball offence during Udinese’s 1-0 win over Parma in March last year.<\/p>\n

The referee and VAR official had already decided not to award a penalty but changed their minds, it is claimed, leading to Florian Thauvin scoring the only goal of the game.<\/p>\n

Prosecutors have now forwarded the case documents to the sports justice authorities and the Italian Olympic Committee’s General Prosecutor’s Office to assess whether any disciplinary breaches within a sporting context may have occurred.<\/p>\n

Sporting fraud is a criminal offence in Italy and carries a maximum sentence of six years in prison.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Prosecutors in Milan have requested that a sports fraud case against Gianluca Rocchi, the man in charge of…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":764590,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[69],"tags":[403,99],"class_list":["post-764589","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-soccer","tag-soccer","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/764589","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=764589"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/764589\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/764590"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=764589"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=764589"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=764589"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}