The persecution from the Croatian city of osijek accused Luka Modric, midfielder of real Madrid, of false testimony in 2017, Croatian news agency Hina reported on Thursday. According to the source, the Prosecutor’s Office formalized the accusation against the best Croatian footballer on Wednesday, at the same time he also accused the Croatian footballer. Dejan Lovren, of French Lyon, of the same crime.
SA Modric he was accused of giving false testimony on June 13, 2017 in a trial before the Osijek Municipal Court “despite the fact that the judge warned him that he had a duty to tell the truth” and that giving false testimony is punishable as a crime .
The sports newspaper Sports news remember this is a test against three senior club officials Dynamo Zagreb and a tax official, accused of tax evasion and illegal allocation of Dinamo’s money to the transfer of Modric at Tottenham in 2008 and Lovren in Lyon in 2010.
Modric testified about the dates on which the annexes to the professional contracts were signed that control the distribution of the transfer fee between him and his exclub. Dynamo.
According to the indictment, Modric testifies “wrongly” that he signed the annexes every time he extended the professional contract and that he signed them again after leaving the club, “although he knew this was not true because he signed the aforementioned contract annexes when he left in the first club”.
At the end of said trial, the judges sentenced the four defendants to various sentences, including six and a half years in prison for the former executive director of Dynamo Zdravko Mamic due to the illegal appropriation of 15.5 million euros from the club.
The testimonials of Modric and Lovren please motherwho fled to Bosnia-Herzegovina, where he currently lives, upon conviction.
Sportske novosti comments that Wednesday’s accusations against Modric and Lovren both were published against them in 2017 and 2018, respectively, but were rejected in 2018 because the process had not been completed.
The trial was closed in 2021 and the prosecution decided on Wednesday to reactivate the accusations for false testimony against two footballers.
Source: La Verdad
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