The list of footballers involved in a prostitution scandal in Italy comes to light
Among the contracted services, the accompaniment of women between 18 and 30 years old was offered
BarcelonaThe Italian Guardia di Finanza has dismantled a network accused of exploiting prostitution and managing nightlife-related events that allegedly provided services to high-level footballers. Among the players mentioned are Real Madrid's Dean Huijsen and Inter's defender, a target for Barça, according to information that has emerged in the Italian press. As confirmed by the EFE agency, the operation, which is being investigated by the Milan Court at the request of the Public Prosecutor's Office, has resulted in four people under house arrest, accused of facilitating prostitution by organizing escort services, as well as money laundering derived from this activity.
According to La Gazzetta dello Sport
, it is believed that at least seventy footballers attended parties organized by the event agency Ma. De. Milano, based in Cinisello Balsamo, which has been under investigation since this Monday for exploitation and complicity in prostitution. Among the alleged participants are Serie A players from Inter, Milan, Juventus, Verona, Torino, Monza, and Sassuolo.
The Economic and Financial Police Unit of the Guardia di Finanza explained to EFE that the organization managed events that "also included the possibility, for wealthy clients [as the focus is mainly on athletes and professional footballers], of accessing sexual services." Furthermore, the use of "nitrous oxide as an exciting and recreational substance," referring to laughing gas, a chemical compound with anesthetic properties that is also used as a recreational drug, consumed from balloons.
Although the clients are not being investigated, the case has generated controversy in Italy, especially concerning Milan and Inter, both clubs from the same city, as several players from top-tier teams and businessmen are among the identified users. "It is not a crime, it is not classified as such. There is no violence of any kind. No indication of violence has emerged from the investigation," states the Guardia di Finanza when asked if the clientele could be investigated. The operation has included searches of several properties and the confiscation of over 1.2 million euros, considered by the authorities to be illicit profits derived from the investigated activity.
Packages with 'escorts' included
According to the investigation, the organization offered "all-inclusive" packages in exchange for thousands of euros that included dinners in exclusive Milanese nightlife venues, luxury hotel accommodation, and the company of women. Investigators claim that this network operated under the guise of an event agency based in the Milan metropolitan area, which for years had allegedly organized parties in clubs and other establishments, while simultaneously managing the recruitment of women, including professional escorts. According to the inquiries, the young women were housed in properties linked to the same agency and subsequently remunerated for the services provided to clients.
The investigated company, which operated under the Instagram name made_luxury_concierge, published images with prominent athletes. In the investigation's wiretaps to which the Italian press has had access, speculation points to more than sixty elite athletes, especially footballers, but also hockey players and an F1 driver, identified among the "clientele". Bastoni, Bellanova, Bisseck, Hakimi, Coutinho, Skriniar, and Carlos Augusto are named, during their time at Inter, as well as De Winter, Leao, Giroud, and Ménez, concerning Milan. Other names are also mentioned, such as the current Real Madrid player Huijsen, who previously played for Juventus and who, in fact, appears in a publication on the Instagram of made_luxury_oncierge in Mykonos (Greece), Vlahovic, or the former Barcelona player, also with a past at Juve, Arthur Melo, or the former Real Madrid player, who also played for the Turin club, Álvaro Morata. From Atalanta and currently at Atlético de Madrid, Matteo Ruggeri would appear.
Girls between 18 and 30 years old
La Gazzetta dello Sport adds that the girls who worked for the agency were invited to have sexual relations in exchange for money with clients, selected mainly from professional footballers. The network, according to the Italian newspaper, kept at least 50% of the amount paid, handing over the rest to the girls. The documents reveal that they did not receive payment directly from the client, but from the organizers. Allegedly, the girls received envelopes with cash according to the services provided and the amount earned. An anonymous witness quoted from one of the girls states: "I kept 10% from a footballer's table who spent three thousand [euros, it is inferred], and the same from the hockey players".
It is also explained that more than a hundred girls, between 18 and 30 years old, both Italian and foreign, participated in these nights, some of whom also worked as escorts. In other cases, they were employed as models, hostesses, or table companions.
