The judicial court of Nanterre (northwest of Paris) will decide on May 30 if he accepts the request of Diego Armando Maradona’s heirs and suspends the auction of the Ballon d’Or at the 1986 World Cup in Mexico won by the Argentine star and scheduled for June 6.
This was announced this Friday to EFE Gilles Moreu, the lawyer of ‘Pelusa’ heirs who died in 2020. Estimated sale of ‘Adidas Golden Ball’, cawarded to Maradona as the best player of the World Cup, may break all records of money for a sports item.
“We are confident that it can be suspended,” said the lawyer, who said he represented in France the five heirs recognized by an Argentine court decision in 2021.
Moreau He indicated that he hoped the court would prevent the sale by acknowledging the existence of “litigation” over the provenance of the Ballon d’Or, which was found by a small collector in 2016, after it had been lost for three decades.
According to the legal representation of Maradonathe prize is stolen in Naples in the late 80s. The lawyer also assured that there was no “good faith” on the part of its current owner, the Franco-Algerian. Abdelhamid B.due to the fact that the object was obtained for 1.20 euros.
“Purchasing a prize for that price cannot be in good faith,” Moreu estimated. Abdelhamid B. is alleged He got it in 2016 at a second-rate auction stacked with other plastic prizes, without knowing what it was.
According to the legal advice of the collector and the Aguttes house, that organizing an auction on June 6 in Neuilly sur Seine (outside Paris), three years passed without a claim from Heirs of Maradona The item is legally owned by this small collector. Abdelhamid B. even posted the award on the popular EBay website.
Aguttes also assured EFE that it has taken all the necessary steps to prove that there are no legal obstacles to its sale.
If he The court of Nanterre does not accept the suspension of the auction, Moreu announced that it is possible to present another appeal before June 6 at the Court of Appeal of Versailles.
He Maradona’s lawyer He also explained that, thanks to his lawsuit, the Nanterre Prosecutor’s Office ordered the Central Office for Trafficking in Cultural Property to investigate whether there was a crime of “hiding a stolen object” by Abdelhamid B.
Source: La Verdad
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