Reuters: Sports News: Italy police launch tax probe into soccer player trades

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Italy police launch tax probe into soccer player trades Jun 25th 2013, 08:29 NAPLES | Tue Jun 25, 2013 4:29am EDT NAPLES (Reuters) - Italian finance police on Tuesday conducted search and seizures of 41 soccer clubs, including 18 top league teams, on suspicion of tax evasion and money laundering in the buying and selling of players, a police spokesman said. Apart from the top level Serie A teams, 11 B league teams and 12 from the lower brackets are involved. The probe also includes 12 player agents, finance police said. The names of the clubs involved were not given. The Naples court ordered the searches as part of an investigation for the crimes of criminal conspiracy, international tax evasion, money laundering and invoice falsification, police said. (Reporting by Amalia De Simone in Naples and Stefano Bernabei in Rome; writing by Steve Scherer.)

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