Tullio Lanese (born 10 January 1947, in
Messina
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) is a former Italian
football referee and a former President of the Italian Referees Association, the AIA.
Referee
From 1987 to 1992
he held the qualification of international referee, officiating in a total of 38 matches, including some matches of the final phase of the
1990 World Cup in Italy: Brazil-Sweden 2-1 in Turin, Uruguay-South Korea 1-0 in Udine and the last 16 encounter Cameroon-Colombia (2-1 after extra time) in Naples. He also refereed the
European Cup final in
1991
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Sweden
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and
Germany
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at the
1992 European Championships.
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The Calciopoli scandal
As a result of the
2006 Italian football scandal , he resigned as President of the AIA; at the end of the legal process he was sentenced by the Federal Court to prohibition for 2 years and 6 months, the sentence was reduced by the Chamber of Conciliation and Arbitration of
CONI
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to 1 year, being replaced by Luigi Agnolin , as Extraordinary Commissioner.
The Naples prosecutor asked for the indictment of Lanese under the charge of criminal association aimed at sports fraud, and the trial was concluded at first instance with a sentence of 2 years of imprisonment.
On December 5, 2012, the fourth section of the Court of Appeal of Naples overturned the sentence of first instance acquitting him.
On 17 October 2012 the Court of Auditors sentenced Lanese, together with the referees involved in the scandal, to compensate the
Italian Football Federation
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It ...
on charges of damage to their image. The former referee would have to pay € 500,000.
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On March 24, 2015 the prosecution's appeal against the plaintiff's acquittal was declared inadmissible in the Supreme Court.
Politics
In 2008 he was nominated by the UDC for the regional elections in Sicily , but was not elected.
References
External links
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Profile
1947 births
Sportspeople from Messina
Italian police officers
Italian football referees
FIFA World Cup referees
1990 FIFA World Cup referees
Living people
UEFA Euro 1992 referees
Olympic football referees
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