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MILAN, Italy (AP) - Inter Milan owner and president Massimo Moratti and AC Milan vice president Adriano Galliani are reportedly being investigated for false bookkeeping.

The two are being investigated by Milan prosecutor Carlo Nocerino, Milan daily Corriere della Sera reported Wednesday.

Nocerino is looking at whether the teams overvalued player transactions by immediately recording capital gains but spreading out costs over a period of years.

The ANSA news agency said Wednesday that the investigation is almost finished.

The prosecutor could not be immediately reached Wednesday and his office declined comment on the report.

Both clubs declined to comment, but Corriere della Sera said that Milan had denied wrongdoing and Inter promised to present "technical arguments" to the investigation that will clear the club.

Prosecutors have previously investigated other club officials for false bookkeeping, including AS Roma and Lazio.

A massive scandal engulfed Italian soccer last year, resulting in Juventus' relegation to Serie B. Juve was also stripped of its last two Serie A titles, while Inter was awarded the 2005-06 Serie A title as the highest-ranked team not implicated in the scandal.

Milan was among four other clubs to start the season with points penalties.

Moratti was questioned in October amid allegations that his club requested the wiretaps that helped uncover the Italian match-fixing scandal. He denied the allegations.

Inter leads Serie A this season.

[dst]

Convince u on what ? That Milan fixs matchs ?! man, it's the system of Serie A certain teams are the ones that win it, they r the ones that r favored, they r the ones that get the greater share of tv $$, they r the ones who bring in the big name players ..

Fixing matchs is just a small part of the whole senario (IMG:http://cyrus.medialayer.net/~m1ke/milanfan.com/forums/style_emoticons/default/rolleyes.gif) .. I'm not saying that Milan does this or that, nor am I convincing u that they fixed this or that match. What I am saying, is that the club had been demoted twice for fruad and now they are very careful about what they do and the consequences ..

Convince me that "this is a part of the scenario"... (IMG:http://cyrus.medialayer.net/~m1ke/milanfan.com/forums/style_emoticons/default/rolleyes.gif)

Firstly it's not the system of Serie A, it's the system of every single football league in the world and in general this is how the whole universe works! You know that of course but I just did not want us to focus on calcio italiano.

Secondly tv rights, transfer frauds and other stuff have nothing to do with match fixing. And Berlusconi in particular has done the former but stayed clear away from the latter. This is what I believe and it's an opinion forged through watching and studying calcio Serie A and it's underground; I think Milan (during Silvio's era) have never fixed any match!! And before anyone starts, I'm not saying this cause I'm a biased Milan fan. I do not see only good in this team, I know who our president is and we're in f@cking G14 for God's sake, the absolute instrument of punishment for the weak, I'm not blind!! This is my very own thought and I have no doubt about it... I would still be a Milan fan, and one as proud as I am now, even if I knew Milan did fix matches or even if it's proved in the future that we did!! So no this is no biased thinking...

And at last Milan has only been demoted once and it wasn't for match fixing, it was because of some of the team's players betting on the outcome of a certain matches, that was the "greengrocer" case... Milan then went on to win Serie B but got relegated again the year after that because they finished last.

That's all I got to say regarding this issue. (IMG:http://cyrus.medialayer.net/~m1ke/milanfan.com/forums/style_emoticons/default/smile.gif)

This post has been edited by dst: Jan 18 2007, 05:03 PM