The plaintiffs demand five years in prison and fines for millionaires, while the prosecution demands two years for fraud and corruption in cases between individuals
Paris Saint-Germain’s Brazilian striker Neymar da Silva Santos faces five years in prison in the trial that begins this Monday in the Barcelona provincial court for his signing for Barça, made in 2013 of Brazil’s Santos and quantified at 82 million euros .
The first day of the oral hearing, which is scheduled to end on October 31, will begin with preliminary questions and witness statements, while the player’s hearing is scheduled for Friday, October 21.
Among those appearing will be the then vice president of FC Barcelona Javier Faus and the former sports director Andoni Zubizarreta, while on Tuesday the president of Real Madrid, Florentino Pérez, will intervene via videoconference to clarify whether he will cancel the signing of the footballer. and with whom he negotiated.
Neymar is charged with alleged corruption in business between individuals and a felony of fraud for concealing some of the payments he received for his signing. The cause stems from a complaint from the Dis Group, which owns 40% of the player’s federated rights, and which considers itself aggrieved because he did not receive the amount agreed with him for the millionaire transfer.
In addition to Neymar, his parents, who received some of the transfers from FC Barcelona, and former presidents Sandro Rosell and Josep Maria Bartomeu, the club’s first vice-president at the time, are accused.
The Dis fund is also accusing Bartomeu of assuring that his signature was required for the transactions, although the prosecutor’s office has released him from his provisional assignment and asked to file the case for him because, although he participated in the signing of a of the contracts, he believes there is no evidence that he knew the transfer negotiations were conducted behind the back of the fund and outside FIFA regulations.
The prosecution is demanding two years in prison for Neymar and five years for Rosell, who was then chairman of the club, and is demanding a fine of 10 million euros for both, the same that the player’s father is demanding.
For the representative of Santos, the prosecutor demands three years in prison for alleged fraud and also accuses FC Barcelona as a legal person, from whom he claims a fine of 8.4 million euros for alleged corporate corruption and fraud, while for the club Brazilian seven million.
The Dis Group, for its part, is demanding Neymar and his parents five years in prison and a $159 million fine, in addition to disqualifying them as sports representatives. For Rosell and Bartomeu, the plaintiff also seeks five years in prison, six years’ disqualification as a manager and business administrator and a fine of $195 million for the alleged damages plus interest.
Source: La Verdad
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