Juventus have had their 15-point penalty suspended pending a new trial but the 30-month ban for Tottenham’s managing director of football, Fabio Paratici, has been upheld by the Italian sporting authorities. After a three-hour hearing on Wednesday, Juventus’s case has now been referred back to the Italian football federation’s appeals court. The lifting of the points penalty moves them up to third in Serie A and back in the mix for a spot in next season’s Champions League. The club were initially hit with the huge points penalty in January for false accounting, while several former members of the Juventus board were also handed bans from football activities. They include the former club president Andrea Agnelli, as well as Paratici, who worked at Juventus for 11 years before joining Tottenham. Juventus denied wrongdoing and appealed to Italy’s highest sports court within the Italian Olympic Committee (Coni), which issued its rulings on Thursday. Pavel Nedved, Paolo Garimberti and Enrico Vellano were among those who were successful in appealing against their charges but Paratici, Agnelli and Federico Cherubini had their appeals rejected. Paratici is on a leave of absence from Tottenham after his two-and-a-half-year ban from involvement in the game was extended worldwide by Fifa at the end of March. The rejection of his appeal by Coni comes as a major blow to Spurs – Paratici had been drawing up a list of candidates to replace Antonio Conte before he stepped back, leaving the acting head coach, Cristian Stellini, in charge. On Wednesday an appeal hearing took place at Coni headquarters in Rome, in front of the sports guarantee panel, chaired by Gabriella Palmieri Sandulli. After almost three hours of evidence the hearing concluded but a final decision on the appeal was pushed back until Thursday. The Coni prosecutor general of sport, Ugo Taucer, had suggested during the hearing that a new trial could occur, saying: “I actually fear that there is an unfoundedness with respect to the points awarded to the team, and a lack of reasons that should be evaluated in a new judgment.” It could take up to a month for the official reasons for the final outcome to be presented to the Italian football federation appeals court, which will now aim to hold another trial in late May to decide the fate of Juventus. The suspension of their points deduction means Juventus move from seventh in Serie A to third, two points behind second-placed Lazio and three ahead of fourth-placed Roma. Milan and Internazionale, who will meet in the Champions League semi-finals, drop to fifth and sixth respectively.