Rome Preliminary Hearing Judge Anna Maria Gavoni has rejected the request to cancel the indictment of Juventus and some former executives, including Andrea Agnelli, Pavel Nedved, Maurizio Arrivabene and Fabio Paratici. The defendants are accused of agiotage, false accounting and false billing as part of the capital gains case and salary maneuvers during the 2020 pandemic. The defense had raised two alleged formal flaws related to the seizure of computer equipment in 2021, arguing that irrelevant and privacy-covered data had also been acquired. But for the Preliminary Hearing Judge, everything was carried out regularly, rendering the petition inadmissible. The proceedings are therefore moving forward. The next preliminary hearing is set for May 19, but in all likelihood a further one will be needed in June before the judge rules on the prosecutor's request. According to the sports daily Tuttosport, the actual trial, if any, would not start until the fall, nearly three years after the Turin prosecutor's office closed its investigation, which was later transferred to Rome due to lack of territorial jurisdiction.