He believes that he is being judged for facts “identical” to the ‘Neymar 1 case’, from which he was exonerated
BARCELONA, 31 Oct. (EUROPA PRESS) –
The lawyer of the former president of FC Barcelona Sandro Rosell, Rafael Alcácer, has requested the acquittal of his client in the ‘Neymar 2 case’ “as an act of justice, in the exclusive light of the evidence carried out and given the impossibility of qualifying the facts as a crime of corruption or fraud”.
Alcácer has said it during his final report in the trial that follows in the Barcelona Court, which will be seen for sentencing this Monday after the reports of the rest of the defenses this afternoon.
“I want to trust that it will be the last of the trials that Rosell has to face and also trust that this case will be resolved with an acquittal”, Alcácer explained at the beginning of his report.
Rosell’s lawyer has insisted that he considers that the facts for which he is accused were already judged in the ‘Neymar 1 case’, which resulted in a sentence of conformity after an agreement between Barça and the Prosecutor’s Office that exonerated the manager .
He has remarked that this procedure was based on the same contracts that support the case that is being judged now, and in his opinion “identical” facts are being judged to those that were already prosecuted, which would contravene the legal principle of not being judged twice by the same facts.
The defense of the former Blaugrana president rules out that free competition was undermined in the signing of Neymar because he had authorization from Santos FC to negotiate with other clubs and “any other club, under cover of that authorization letter, could have reached the same agreement of future incorporation of the player in exchange for that economic consideration, because he is protected by FIFA”.
In this sense, he has remarked that in 2013 there were other clubs willing to sign Neymar, “competitors who were willing to face that additional payment” to persuade him by exceeding the 40 million euros that Barça had offered him as a signing bonus.
This case prosecutes whether the agreements for the signing of Neymar for Barça from Santos FC in 2013 were a fraud and a crime of corruption between individuals because the accusations believe that the signing cost more than 17 million – the figure given by the club Blaugrana — but they suspect that FC Barcelona allegedly masked the rest of the money in three other contracts.
It is a contract of 7.9 million in preferential rights on three youth players, another of 4.5 million to play two friendlies and another of 40 million that Neymar and Barça signed in 2011 as a signing bonus.
