The Milan Prosecutor's Office has requested the dismissal of the case against former refereeing designator Gianluca Rocchi, investigated for conspiracy in sports fraud together with unidentified members of Inter. After approximately two years of investigation, prosecutors Marcello Viola, Paolo Ielo, and Maurizio Ascione excluded the existence of a structured system aimed at interfering with refereeing appointments.

According to the prosecution's note, the dismissal request acknowledges the historical existence of individual episodes of interference, as reconstructed through wiretaps and, in some cases, surveillance results, but does not find a structured system designed to interfere with appointments. The prosecutors distinguished between penal relevant sports fraud, which requires fraudulent conduct capable of affecting the regularity of a single match, and interference conduct objectively lacking such characteristics.

The investigation, opened in late 2024 and involving five suspects including the so-called knocks at the VAR room, focused on referee designations for four Inter matches: Bologna-Inter on April 20, 2025, the Inter-Milan Coppa Italia semifinal on April 23, Inter-Verona on May 3, and Torino-Inter on April 26.

Inter was also registered under the administrative liability of entities law (Legislative Decree 231), but the prosecutors ordered the dismissal of the club's case as well, as a direct consequence of the exclusion of the underlying offense.

All files have been forwarded to the Federal Prosecutor's Office and the Attorney General's Office of CONI for evaluation of possible disciplinary relevance. Meanwhile, the branch concerning the so-called knocks at the VAR room in Lissone has been transferred for jurisdiction to the Monza Prosecutor's Office.

According to Il Fatto Quotidiano, the entire file was also sent to the Parliamentary Anti-Mafia Commission to assess hypotheses of connections with organized crime, and the name of FIGC president Gabriele Gravina appears in the second notice to appear issued last May, though he is not under investigation.