Inter's Recoba and Oriali banned in fake passport scandal

Internazionale's highest earner Alvaro Recoba has been banned for a year from all football after playing for the Milan club with a false passport.

Prosecutor for the Italian Football League' disciplinary committee Carlo Porceddu had asked for Recoba to to be suspended for two years and Inter be fined 3 billion lire.

The verdict today sees the Uruguayan banned for a year

Porceddu also wants two year bans for Inter technical director Lele Oriali, club official Rinaldo Ghelfi and Franco Baldini, currently sports director of AS Roma, for their alleged role in the affair. Baldini works as a transfer consultant. Baldini is banned until the end of March next year.

Udinese suffer most financially with a 3 billion lire or £1.1 million fine after the 68 page report was published into the scandal.

Inter and Lazio were both fined £700,000 or 2 billion lire with Roma facing a £400,000 fine. Vicenza and Milan were fined £300,000 each.

Inter pay Recoba £4.5 million a season as their top earner with four more years left on his contract

Porceddu did not call for points deductions or relegation for clubs but requested suspensions for players and officials and fines for their clubs.

Porceddu won year bans for Roma's Brazilian player Fabio Junior and Argentine striker Gustavo Bartelt.

AC Milan's Brazilian goalkeeper Dida was banned for a year

Inter technical director Gabriele Oriali was a member of Italy's 1982 World Cup winning side, and the club's chief executive officer Rinaldo Ghelfi were charged with relation to the Recoba case in which he was fielded as an EU qualified player in breach of league rules.

AC Milan's Brazilian goalkeeper Dida was charged with using a false Portuguese passport to gain EU status but the Milan club does not face punishment.

Four current and former Udinese players from Brazil were charged with similar offences with two Udinese officials after they were stopped by Polish police last September on their way to a UEFA Cup tie.

Serie B side Sampdoria have been given six month bans for three young African players but no action has been taken against four officials and former officials from the Genoa club, including leading shareholder Enrico Mantovani and former director-general Emiliano Salvarezza.

Vicenza, like Milan, have not been charged, but two Brazilianswere accused of playing for the Serie A club on false, or falsely obtained, passports. They are banned for a year each.

Inter, Udinese and Sampdoria will not lose league points over the scandal which has angered relegated SS Napoli with Inter executive Oriali being banned from working in football for a year.

Recoba's passport was described as "something a child would have made" two months ago after the investigation by the FIGC got underway.

SS Lazio star Juan Sebastian Veron will face civil trial on October 11th along with club president Sergio Cragnotti over his claims to be an Italian citizen.

Veron claimed Italian status with the help of Lazio in 1999 through a great grandfather but this has since been questioned by Rome prosecutors raising doubts over his EU status and Lazio's use of the quota system for foreign players during their championship season last year.