The two are accused of signing the striker for Barça in 2013
BARCELONA, 27 Oct. (EUROPA PRESS) –
The trial for alleged fraud and corruption between individuals in the signing of striker Neymar da Silva for FC Barcelona from Santos FC in 2013 will continue this Friday at the Barcelona Court with the interrogations of former Blaugrana presidents Sandro Rosell and Josep Maria Bartomeu, who at the time he was the first vice president of the club.
The Prosecutor’s Office demands a five-year prison sentence for Rosell but does not accuse Bartomeu, while the private prosecution of the Dis group – owner of 40% of the player’s federative rights – asks for five years in prison for the two former presidents.
This Friday will also declare a legal representative of the Blaugrana club, which is accused as a legal person and faces a fine of 8.44 million euros claimed by the prosecutor.
The trial began on Monday of last week and continued in morning and afternoon sessions until Thursday, and after this Friday the final reports and the last word turn of the accused will be pending, which will be held next Monday. and to whom the court has accepted that Neymar intervene by videoconference.
There are a total of nine accused in the case and last week the player, his parents, the former director of Santos FC Odilio Rodrigues, the legal representative of the Brazilian club and that of the consultancy N
In his statement, Neymar answered only his lawyer’s questions and denied that he had participated in his transfer negotiations: “My father was in charge. I sign what he tells me,” he assured.
Neymar’s lawyer, María Massó, asked the court to exempt the player from being in the room for the rest of the trial and the magistrates accepted: the player did not return after his interrogation and it is likely that he will not attend this Friday or Monday either, given that the court has allowed you to use or waive your right to the last word by videoconference.
This case prosecutes whether the agreements for the signing of Neymar for Barça 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 Blaugrana club – but they suspect that FC Barcelona presumably 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.
Dis’s accusation, as owner of part of Neymar’s federation rights, is harmed because he received 40% of the 17 million that the transfer cost, but not of the other contracts that according to his thesis were linked to the transfer of the player .
