Androni Giocattoli-Sidermec director Gianni Savio is under fire in Italy’s latest inquiry into riders being forced to pay to race for Professional Continental teams. In a recent press release, Savio admits that he hired one rider because he brought in sponsorship, but believes that this contract is unrelated to the inquiry on hand.
News broke on Friday in the Corriere della Sera that there is an on-going Italian inquiry investigating allegations that teams Androni, Bardiani-CSF and Wilier-Southeast have forced some riders to pay their own way or bring in additional sponsors in order to earn a professional contract, and that riders have later been required to pay an additional fee on leaving teams.
“I am totally unrelated to any story related to "riders who pay to race,” Savio said in a press release on Monday.
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Corriere della Sera also reported that the team managers Gianni Savio, Bruno Reverberi and Angelo Citracca are at risk of between one-year and life bans if found guilty of wrongdoing by the investigation carried out by the Italian Olympic Committee (CONI).
Savio said his lawyer Giuseppe Napoleone has requested the CONI Attorney’s Office copy of the complete file to assess the statements that have been made against him and his team, and if they can be considered libel.
Savio has responded to the investigation into his hiring practices admitting that he brought in rider Patrick Facchini in 2013, a rider who brought with him two additional sponsors; Consortium of Valli del Chiese and BM GROUP, but he insisted that the contracts were legitimate and followed the rules.
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