Inter Milan to sue Moggi over interview comments

Italian Inter Milan will sue former Juventus general manager Luciano Moggi for comments he made about the club's president in a newspaper interview, Inter Milan owner Massimo Moratti said Monday.

Moggi, at the centre of a match-fixing scandal that jolted Italian football, said in the interview with daily Repubblica that Inter Milan were unfairly trying to take the moral high ground.

Moggi's intercepted phone conversations provided the basis of the initial match-fixing investigation. On Friday, he was banned from soccer for five years and handed a EUR 50,000 fine.

Moggi, who denied wrongdoing, said it was not fair that he should be singled out as the main player in the scandal and accused Inter Milan president Giacinto Facchetti of a series of illicit dealings.

"These are the words of desperate people," Moratti said on the club's website "Facchetti above all, and we at Inter, will sue Moggi because we have nothing to do with this and these things should not even be thought of."

Moratti also reiterated his demand for last season's Serie A title to be awarded to his club, which have not been involved in the scandal.

The tribunal investigating the match-fixing allegations relegated champions Juventus to second division Serie B Friday and stripped them of their last two titles. Ex-champions Fiorentina and Lazio were also demoted to Serie B. Milan will stay in Serie A but are barred from European competition next season and start with a 15-point penalty.

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