The Italian Financial Police dismantled a network accused of exploiting prostitution and managing night-time events that allegedly had players at the highest level of Italian football as clients.
According to the investigation, the parties also included the use of laughing gas (nitrous oxide) as a recreational drug. The information was released this Tuesday (21) by the newspaper La Gazzetta dello Sport. According to the report, 50 Serie A athletes, including players from Milan and Inter Milan, were on the client list.
Furthermore, the Italian police investigation also mentions that one of the women hired became pregnant as a result of a relationship with one of the prostitution network’s clients. The facts are being investigated by the Milan Court, at the request of the Public Prosecutor’s Office.
The investigation has already resulted in the house arrest of four people, accused of facilitating prostitution through the organization of escort services, as well as participating in laundering money arising from illegal activity.
According to information from the Italian Economic and Financial Police, passed on to the agency EFEthe operation promoted events that “also included the possibility, for wealthy clients (mainly athletes and professional football players) of access to sexual services”.
Italian police sources also confirmed that the events could involve the “use of nitrous oxide as a stimulant and recreational substance”. At this point, however, customers are not targets of the investigation. But the case generated controversy in Italian football, which is still suffering after failing to qualify for another World Cup.
The scandal particularly affects Milan and Inter Milan, rivals from the same city, as a series of top players and businessmen are among the clients already identified, although their names are still being kept confidential.