Aurelio and Luigi De Laurentiis are on the centre of an investigation by the Bari Prosecutor’s Workplace into alleged false accounting and fraudulent chapter offences associated to their administration of the Serie C membership.
Searches are underway on the Bari and Filmauro headquarters, with Aurelio De Laurentiis and his son Luigi, the only real director of Serie C aspect Bari, beneath investigation for alleged false accounting and fraudulent chapter.
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proprietor De Laurentiis beneath investigation over Bari funds
Prosecutors have additionally requested the opening of judicial liquidation proceedings over Bari’s insolvency. The investigation stemmed from an examination of the membership’s monetary statements, explanatory notes and administration studies.
The evaluate, based on investigators, highlighted Bari’s recurring losses of circa €30m between 2019 and 2025, in addition to a considerable capital deficit and debt publicity with no credible restructuring plan in place.
Prosecutors consider that Bari’s poor monetary state of affairs was additional worsened by a collection of suspicious transactions, together with the switch of .
CAGLIARI, ITALY – JANUARY 17: Elia Caprile of Cagliari seems to be on throughout the Serie A match between and at Stadio Sant’Elia on January 17, 2026 in Cagliari, Italy. (Photograph by Enrico Locci/Getty Photos)
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Now at Cagliari, the Italy worldwide joined Bari from in 2022, with the Italian membership together with a sell-on payment for Leeds within the deal.
Nevertheless, when Caprile joined Napoli one 12 months later, the switch settlement allegedly didn’t embody a bonus for Bari on any future capital acquire.
By giving up all rights to any future capital beneficial properties, Bari allegedly transferred the participant’s complete future financial worth to Napoli, thereby deepening their monetary misery.
Caprile spent two seasons at Napoli, making simply 4 aggressive appearances, earlier than a mortgage transfer to Empoli.
The 24-year-old then moved to Cagliari, first on mortgage in January 2025, then on a everlasting switch for €8m final summer season.
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Former Bari director Ciro Polito, ex-Napoli sporting director Cristiano Giuntoli (now at ), Mauro Meluso (Napoli sporting director in 2023-24) and Caprile’s agent Graziano Battistini had been additionally topic to searches in relation to the goalkeeper’s transfers, however aren’t beneath investigation.
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The request for Bari’s judicial liquidation proceedings was made following a technical evaluation of the membership’s monetary statements from 2019 to 2025, prompting prosecutors to assert that SSC Bari endure from a “critical financial and monetary imbalance able to jeopardising enterprise continuity,” as quoted by
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Investigators argue that the membership stay operational solely due to extraordinary monetary help from its sole shareholder, Filmauro, by capital injections, debt waivers and the revaluation of the membership’s trademark.
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