Overview
- Local urban police inspected works on May 7 and later found a roughly 150-square-metre, 3.5-metre-high structure in the Tribuna autorità that they say lacked a building permit.
- The Polizia Locale seized the completed or ongoing structure and a judge ordered the area placed under judicial sequestration while investigators probe alleged abuso edilizio.
- Prosecutors have opened an inquiry naming Aurelio De Laurentiis as the person who commissioned the works in his role with S.S.C. Napoli and he is now formally under investigation.
- The club showed officers a September 2025 city-council delibera that approved hospitality spaces but the Comune di Napoli says that document did not replace the separate authorization required to begin building.
- Mayor Gaetano Manfredi said a private complaint prompted the checks and called the issue an interpretation dispute, while the case still risks legal and reputational fallout for the club and its president and could slow planned stadium work.