Italian media personality and loudmouth Fabrizio Corona has been told to put up or shut up after his claims about Aston Villa’s Nicolo Zaniolo.
That’s according to Calciomercato.it, who say the TV personality’s latest comments on the midfielder have are ‘not given any weight’ for the time being.
Earlier today Corona insisted that he had been silenced over his efforts to expose information he had, in this case recordings of conversations, that could further implicate the Aston Villa midfielder in the ongoing betting scandal gripping Italian football.
For those that don’t know, Zaniolo is one of three players being investigated by Italian prosecutors looking into illegal betting platforms, although he insists all betting was done on poker and blackjack.
He was, at least as he says, stopped from airing those claims on TV, but the prosecutors involved in the case have ‘not given any weight’ to those claims.
They’ve let it be known to CM.it that if Corona has something to say that can ‘substantiate the investigations’ then he can go, like all citizens, to the Prosecutor’s Office. At the moment his claims of sources and evidence to further the case have zero weight and are being seen as just words.
In the meantime, the investigation is ongoing, and the investigators involved from the Turin Prosecutor’s Office are waiting for the Aston Villa man to respond to an invitation to speak to them.
Unlike Tonali and Fagioli he is yet to do so, and he is not obligated to do so as yet, with the feeling currently that there is a need to ‘triangulate’ his return from England and perhaps reach a compromise that suits all parties.
