The director of the Dis group believes that Barça paid for the signing of Santos more than what he has recognized
BARCELONA, 19 Oct. (EUROPA PRESS) –
The executive director of the Dis group, Roberto Longo, responsible for the company that owns 40% of the federative rights of the soccer player Neymar da Silva, has criticized that the soccer player received “a bribe” from Barça for not accepting offers from other clubs.
“There was fraud, scam. Neymar received a bribe of 40 million euros for not accepting any other proposal, so that Dis would not receive the 40% to which he was entitled”, he valued when testifying as a witness in the trial that has been going on since Monday in the Barcelona Court for alleged fraud and corruption in the transfer of the striker from Santos FC to FC Barcelona in 2013.
In 2011, FC Barcelona signed with N
However, the signing was finally brought forward to 2013, when Neymar was not yet a ‘free agent’, and the Dis group believes that Barça paid Santos more than what it has recognized –17 million– with the signing and that, therefore, your 40% should be higher.
Specifically, they are accused of masking part of the cost of the signing in base football collaboration contracts and in preferential rights over three youth players, and another for Santos to play in the Joan Gamper trophy and Barça to participate in a friendly in Brazil .
Longo has argued in court that Dis’s contract with N
Instead, the defenses allege that Dis’s contract with N
The witness has said that even before Neymar signed for Barça they began to “distrust” him because his father, who is also his representative, had proposed to Dis to buy his 40% of the player’s federation rights, and that made them to think that they had offers from clubs and did not want the merchant to receive their share of the transfer.
