Inter Milan claimed today
they were being victimised over their alleged role in a false passports scandal after learning they will be the first club to be hauled before the Italian league.
The Milan-based league announced on Monday night that it would hear evidence against Inter's Uruguayan forward Alvaro Recoba and two club officials on April 19th.
It will then deal with charges against AC Milan's Brazilian goalkeeper Dida on April 20th.
The league will hear allegations against players and officials from former Italian champions Sampdoria on May 3rd and Udinese on May 4th. It has yet to fix a date for a hearing on charges against players at Vicenza.
"We're stunned by the speed with which they've decided to deal with the cases of the two Milan clubs first and by the outrageous procedural weaknesses which have forced them to put off the hearings into the other clubs," Inter's veteran lawyer and vice president Giuseppe Prisco said on the club's official website.
Prisco, who has been on Inter's board since 1950, suggested after a marathon meeting with the league on Monday that Inter was being made a scapegoat.