The Supreme Court prosecutor, Paloma Abad, during the hearing of appeals against the sentence in the Osasuna case, maintained that all bonuses to third parties, not only those paid for a team to allow itself to win, but as well as those paid out of those winnings, should be considered a crime of sports corruption.
This is what the representative of the Prosecutor’s Office said this Wednesday at the high court, where he generally opposed the appeals against the sentence of the Audiencia de Navarra, the first to condemn the nine accused for corruption in sports in Spain for manipulation of two Spaniards. football league matches of the 2013-2014 season between Club Atlético Osasuna from Pamplona and two Betis players.
The prosecutor emphasized the importance of the verdict handed down by the Supreme Court in this case, because it is the first time that it will decide on convictions for the crime of corruption in sports in Spain set out in article 286 bis, fourth section of The Penal Code and It will be checked whether not only bonuses to third parties for losing but also incentives to win are included in it.
The Provincial Court sentenced former Osasuna president Miguel Archanco, former club manager Ángel Vizcay, former treasurer Sancho Bandrés, former managers Juan Antonio Pascual and Jesús Peralta, two real estate agents, one of of them have died, and former Betis players Antonio Amaya and Xabier Torres.
They were sentenced to sentences between eight years and eight months in prison imposed on Vizcay and nine months for the real estate agents, a sentence that the defense asked the Supreme Court to annul the violation of rights such as of the presumption of innocence so they can be acquitted, which the prosecutor opposed and the accusations brought by Osasuna and the National Professional Football League (LNFP).
The Audience considered it proven that the former directors agreed to prioritize the then Betis players Amaya and Torres with 650,000 euros, 400,000 for the Andalusian team to beat Valladolid on the penultimate day of the league and 250,000 to lose them in the end. in their visit to the Osasuna stadium to try to avoid relegation to the second division of the Navarrese club, which finally took place.
To refute the allegations made by some defenses, the Supreme Court prosecutor maintained that “all premiums to third parties are included in the aforementioned article of the Penal Code, whether to lose or pay to win.”
“We are talking about giving priority to a third party and thus intervening in the normal functioning of the rest of the teams,” insisted the prosecutor, who also pointed out that the bonus in this case was paid to Betis so that they would lose. Valladolid indicated an action that had the possibility to influence the final result of the game because the Andalusian team was mathematically relegated to second place and nothing was at stake.
Finally, on the penultimate matchday Betis beat Valladolid 4-3 and on the last matchday Osasuna beat Betis 2-1, but they happened to be the three teams that ended up being relegated to the Second Division.
The Court also condemned the former managers of Osasuna for defrauding the club of 2,340,000 euros, 900,000 in the 2012-2013 season and 1,440,000 in 2013/2014, when they went to two real estate agents to sign a real estate activities that beginning with receipt of non-receipt. , according to the appealed judgment.
Source: La Verdad
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