JUVENTUS, its former general manager Luciano Moggi and match officials have been charged in the second part of a probe into the 2006 match-fixing scandal, Italy’s soccer federation (FIGC) said Wednesday.

    Moggi had already been banned from soccer for five years after the first part of the probe for leading attempts to secure compliant referees for some teams’ games.

    He is now accused of giving foreign mobile telephone SIM cards to match officials to create a secret system of communication with them, the FIGC said on its Web site (www.figc.it).

    Moggi is also accused of breaking FIGC rules by carrying out the functions of a club director for Messina, a second-division side who were in the top flight when the scandal broke, while he was also a senior executive of Juventus.

    Nine current and former referees and assistants, along with a former refereeing official, are accused of using the SIM cards provided by Moggi.

    (SD-Agencies)