This turnaround highlights divergences of appreciation within the Spanish prosecution on this complex dossier.
Le Monde
Theater at the Neymar trial: the Spanish prosecutor’s office withdrew, Friday, October 28, all his accusations against the footballer and his co -accused on Friday. They were judged for alleged irregularities having surrounded the transfer of the Brazilian international to FC Barcelona in 2013.
Intervening at one of the last hearings of this trial, the prosecutor Luis Garcia announced, to everyone’s surprise, “withdraw the accusation against all the defendants and for all the facts” which are accused of. >
The prosecution had initially required two years in prison and 10 million euros fine for corruption against the Brazilian star of Paris Saint-Germain (PSG), making its own accusations of Brazilian society say who assures having been defrauded During this transfer. He finally turned, believing that the accusations “were not built on evidence” but “on presumptions” and that the file was of civil and non-criminal justice.
the Weakened accusation
say, which held 40 % of Neymar’s rights when he played at the Brazilian club of Santos, “is entitled to think that the transfer of Neymar [to FC Barcelona] should bring him a greater benefit, but s ‘is deceived of jurisdiction, “assured Mr. Garcia. This turnaround highlights differences of appreciation within the Spanish prosecution on this complex file originally educated by Madrid prosecutors before the file is sent to Barcelona.
If he does not necessarily presage the outcome of the trial, which ends on Monday, he weakens the accusation in any case. This is now based solely on DIS, which represents in this trial the “popular accusation”, a particularity of the Spanish legal system allowing any citizen or organization to land as accuser. As such, said claims five years in prison against Neymar. In addition to Neymar and his parents, two former presidents of Barça, Sandro Rosell and Josep María Bartomeu, and a former leader of Santos, Odilio Rodrigues Filho, are judged in this trial.
say, who brought the case in 2015, says that Barça, Neymar and his family and then Santos in a second step were allied to hide the real amount of the transfer and “defraud”. She also criticizes them for not having informed him of the existence of an exclusivity contract signed in 2011 between the Brazilian star and Barça, which, according to her, distorted the transfer window, preventing other clubs from fighting to Recruit Neymar.
Barça initially encrypted the cost of transfer to 57.1 million euros (40 million for Neymar and his family and 17.1 for Santos), but Spanish justice considers that it actually cost at least 83 million euros.
Dis claims 35 million euros 2>
The Brazilian investment company, which received 6.8 million euros out of the 17.1 million officially paid to the Brazilian club, claims 35 million euros in compensation, the sum it estimates to have lost In the case.
Questioned last week during the first days of hearing, “Ney” and his parents, who had made the trip to Barcelona, denied any irregularity. The player – who will participate in the World Cup, who begins on November 20 in Qatar, with Brazil – said he did not “remember” to have participated in the negotiations of the exclusive agreement sealed in 2011, ensuring that Based on the choices of his father. “I sign what he tells me” to sign, he assured, before his father confirms that the player had “never participated in the negotiations”.
Neymar’s father defended himself by arguing that it was not for him but Santos to inform say of the existence of completely legal negotiations according to him and in addition authorized by the Brazilian club in a Letter.
This trial was nicknamed “Neymar 2”, “Neymar 1” designating the tax fraud deriving this same transfer. It was concluded in 2016 with an agreement between the prosecution and Barça, which had agreed to pay a fine of 5.5 million. Neymar and Barça also clashed in the courts, but ended up signing in July 2021 an “amicable” agreement ending all their disputes.