Osasuna Case: first conviction for sports corruption, despite the “social p...

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Sentence of the Second Section of the Provincial Court of Navarra, issued on April 23, in the so-called “Osasuna Case” has become the first sentence in our country to convict for a crime of sports corruption . The AP of Navarra understands that it has been proven that the convicted persons, members at that time of the Osasuna Board of Directors, agreed to prioritize two former Real Betis Balompié players (Antonio Amaya and Xabi Torres) with the purpose of "altering the results of the sports competition paying a total of 650,000 euros to encourage their victory against Real Valladolid on matchday 37 of the 2013/2014 season, as well as allowing themselves to win in the match that faced them against Osasuna on matchday.

Likewise, from the content of the proven facts, the existence of two very different issues emerges, "even though both have been followed in a single procedure based on the facts that are Senegal Email List the subject of the accusation": on the one hand, that referring to the aspect of economic management of the club , which includes the crime of misappropriation or unfair management and document falsification and accounting falsification; and on the other hand, that referring to the “historic” crime of sports corruption . Firstly, in relation to the economic management of Club Atlético Osasuna, the ruling in its Tenth Fundamentals of Law announces that, it is proven that as a consequence “ of the use and abuse that was carried out of the cash and the cash payments by of the club , at the end of the year there were outflows of money without justification, which in the case of the 2012-2013 season represented a mismatch of 900,000 euros and in the season they amounted to euros.



Finally, the Second Section reports that, “these outflows of money could not be justified because they were not used for the club's purposes and their final destination was unknown.” For this reason, and with the intention of balancing the accounts, in the 2012/2013 season they went to real estate agents Cristina Nolla and Albert Nolla who signed a receipt for that amount, pretending to have non-existent real estate activities as their object. In the following season, they changed their strategy and a false contract was created with the Portuguese company Flefield. Secondly, in relation to the crime of sports corruption , the sentence begins by citing that the precept itself fits with the facts under analysis.