Juventus up to 3rd after 15-point penalty suspended

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That is unlikely to conclude before the end of the season and so any penalty would be for the following campaign.

Juventus moved from seventh in the league to third, two points behind second-place Lazio and three ahead of fourth-place Roma in a tight battle for the Champions League qualifying places. Defending champion AC Milan was dumped out of the top four and was two points ahead of Inter Milan.

The Milan teams meet in the Champions League semifinals next month.

Juventus was hit with the massive penalty in January for false accounting while several members of its former board were also handed bans from soccer activities, including former president Andrea Agnelli.

Juventus denied wrongdoing and appealed to Italy’s highest sports court within the Italian Olympic Committee, known as CONI.

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Several of the suspensions were upheld including for Agnelli and Tottenham director Fabio Paratici. However, Pavel Nedvěd was one of six former board members to have their appeals accepted.

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The Juventus board resigned en masse in November following an investigation by Turin public prosecutors into alleged false bookkeeping.

A sports trial in the case was then re-opened based on information from the Turin prosecutors, leading to the points deduction.

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The preliminary hearing in a Turin court last month was postponed until May 10 for administrative reasons.