Overview
- Prosecutors in Turin filed a renewed request to send Elkann to trial, and Monday’s preliminary hearing was postponed to June 22 to fold the split proceedings into one.
- Elkann faces charges of aggravated fraud against the State and fraudulent tax evasion, while family accountant and Juventus chair Gian Luca Ferrero faces the same counts plus an alleged false public deed with a Turin notary tied to the Dicembre holding.
- Investigators say the late Marella Caracciolo’s Swiss residence was faked to skirt Italian inheritance rules, and last summer Elkann paid about €180–183 million to the tax agency in back taxes and succession dues.
- Earlier steps included a December court order that forced prosecutors to file charges on two tax counts and a February denial of a probation-style request that would have paused the case.
- Elkann’s lawyers call the filing a routine procedural step and say he did nothing wrong, while the stakes are high given the family’s control of Stellantis, Exor and Juventus.