In the Barcelona trial over alleged irregularities connected to his transfer in 2013 from Santos to Barcelona, the Brazilian star Neymar stated on Tuesday that he was always signed by his father.
Contract negotiations have always been something that “my father has been interested in,” I was always in charge of those. I signs what he was saying to me.
” He also stressed that he “does not remember” if he participates in the negotiations of the agreement concluded in 2011 with Barcelona on his future transition, which constitutes the main issue in the trial.
The hearing was supposed to take place on October 21 or 28, but Neymar’s attorney asked for it to be held now because of his upcoming football commitments with Saint-Germain in the French League on Friday and the Champions League on Tuesday.
The 30-year-old won’t have to travel back to Barcelona to participate in the upcoming surgeries. On the scheduled trial date of the 31st of this month, he will have one more opportunity to speak, if he so chooses, by phoning the video.
The Prosecutor had charged corruption against Neymar, calling for two years in prison and a fine of 10 million euros.
Members of the Neymar family are among the remaining eight defendants, along with former Barcelona club presidents Sandro Rosell and Josep Maria Bartomeo, who both asked for five years in prison from the Public Prosecution, and former Santos Club director Odilio Rodriguez Felio.
The case was initiated as a result of a complaint made in 2015 by the Brazilian “DIS” group, which held some of Neymar’s rights and felt harmed by Neymar’s transfer to the Catalan club.
The group believes that the attacker’s transfer injured them. Barcelona announced the beginning of the payment of 57. 1 million euros (40 million for the player’s family and 17.
1 for its old club Santos), but according to the Spanish judiciary, the worth of the deal was at least 83 million euros.
The “DIS” organisation asserts that Barcelona and Neymar, then Santos, conspired to conceal the exact cost of the procedure. The “DIS” group got 6. 8 million euros from the 17. 1 that officially paid the Brazilian team.
The amount you believe has been lost in the case, 35 million euros, is what the group is asking for in compensation.
Neymar, who moved from Barcelona to Saint-Germain in 2017 in a transaction costing 222 million euros, making him the most expensive player in the world, did not violate any rules, according to the player’s attorneys. They claim that the 40 million euros he received as part of this transaction equates to a “legitimate and customary transfer incentive in the football market.”
Author: AFP.
After the prosecutor asked for a two-year prison sentence, Neymar defended himself in a Barcelona court.
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