The Singapore honeymoon of Daniel Cuesta and his partner, Valencia CF supporters, turned into a nightmare when their passports were confiscated and they were arrested after the former posted images on his social media criticizing the biggest club shareholder and Singaporean tycoon Peter Lim.
As this newspaper reported, Cuesta on Thursday (October 3) posted photos and videos of himself posing with a flag with the caption “Lim go home” in front of a building that turned out to be Lim’s residence and affixing a small sticker with the motto “Lim out” on the door of the property.
The next day, Friday, October 4, Cuesta and his partner planned to travel from Singapore to Bali to continue their honeymoon. However, according to journalist Héctor Gómez, director of Sports tribuneat Singapore airport, they were arrested and transferred to a hotel while waiting to make a statement. Both their passports were confiscated.
From that moment until last October 10, when the return of their passports and their return to Valencia with a warning, that is to say without any sanction, was announced, there was practically no information about their situation, partly at the request of the woman. his family and the diplomatic authorities, with the aim of reaching a rapid and satisfactory solution.
With the couple back in Valencia, elDiario.es gathered information about what happened during this period from close sources. As explained, the problems arose at customs control at Singapore airport. When they were unsuccessful, they went to the immigration office, where they were told they would go to an agent to ask some questions. After almost two hours of waiting, two plainclothes agents appear, one of whom appears to have a higher rank and who, by the way he speaks, resembles Peter Lim. This policeman, before starting the testimony with the second agent, told them that they could not come to the Asian country and do what they wanted, that Lim would sell whenever he wanted, that he had bought the club at a very low price and that he would sell it. it was a lot more expensive and just because I put four stickers on it, it wasn’t going to go away.
The second agent was the one who took care of the interrogation, already in a cordial and respectful manner. In the same immigration offices, he asked them, for example, where they got the flag and stickers or what Libertad Valencia CF was (a platform opposition to Lim of which Cuesta is a member). After their statement, they were taken in a police car to a hotel near the facility where they testified again a few hours later. All this time they had complete freedom of movement, but they came to fear because of the situation created.
Before the second statement, the supposedly high-ranking agent tried to intimidate them again, threatening them that if negative news or fake news from the Asian country continued to come out, since he was detained (while it was not was not the case), they would reopen their doors. the case and others could remain in custody for another 10 or 15 days, a trial could even be opened. This is why the family asked for discretion in the information published on those days.
Eventually, the diplomatic efforts bore fruit and it all ended in a scare. On October 10, the Singapore authorities returned their passports and they were able to return to Valencia with a notice, what they call a “warning” there. This Monday, Cuesta thanked Valencia CF supporters for their support on his social networks, admitted his mistake and said that the one who made the mistake was “only” him, but criticized the “abuse of power” of the Singapore authorities.
Thus, he explained that he needs time to recover from “the damage” that he may have caused “to very important people” in his life and asked that the objective of “focusing on this” be understood. which is the most important”, which is to recover from it.
However, he added that “if anyone thought that this club – in reference to Valencia CF – was dead, just look at how people reacted to this abuse of power and this great injustice”, Cuesta stressed , who thanked the group. Libertad VCF, Peter Lim’s opposition group, for your support during these weeks.
