Marco Di Paola has taken the dispute over the FISE inquiry to the Sports Justice Guarantee Commission, directly challenging sports prosecutor general Ugo Taucer’s takeover of the case. The move turns an inquiry into alleged irregularities in FISE’s 2024 election into an open institutional dispute over sports justice.
La Repubblica reported that Di Paola, who is both president of the Italian Equestrian Sports Federation and a CONI vice-president, filed a complaint against Taucer and his deputy, Guido Cipriani. The filing seeks disciplinary sanctions under Article 13-ter of the CONI statute.
The sequence matters. Taucer had taken over the inquiry under way within FISE into alleged electoral fraud in the 2024 vote, removing it from the federation’s own prosecutor. FISE secretary-general Simone Perillo had already filed an appeal against that step with CONI’s Board of Guarantee. Di Paola’s complaint now extends the dispute directly to Taucer and Cipriani.
This is not a ruling on the alleged election fraud, which La Repubblica says remains under investigation. It is, however, a direct challenge to who should control that investigation and under what safeguards. When the president of the federation at the centre of the inquiry seeks disciplinary action against those who took over the file, the issue reaches beyond the 2024 vote: it tests whether oversight, investigation and institutional interests can be kept distinct within Italian sport.
There is a relevant counterargument. Appeals and disciplinary complaints can be normal procedural safeguards, rather than evidence that the takeover was improper. That makes clear reasons and decisions from the competent bodies especially important. The report does not provide the complaint’s full legal arguments or any decision by the Guarantee Commission.
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- la Repubblica · Source date: 2026-11-14
Independent editorial content. WUA is not affiliated with any political party. 2026-11-14