Another problem for Joan Laporta. A Barcelona court has indicted Barca’s president for the second time in a case of alleged aggravated fraud, also for allegedly diverting money from an investor to China. The complaint also targets his former partner Joan Olivé, according to his account. ‘The Confidential’. Both of them accuses them of not having returned 50,000 euros to a private investor.
Apparently, at least between 2016 and 2018, Joan Laporta had a business with Joan Olivé, former treasurer of Barça, through which they invested private capital. Several of them now say that society The money was not returned to them.
The money was delivered through the manager Solé. There, the person concerned was guaranteed the possibility of “recovering the investment” and also “save the product in a short time”. To convince him, moreover, he was told that “he had to hurry” because the project “It was a good deal.”
The “deal” consisted of creating a football club in China, opening a Masía like that of Barça to train and sell players in the Asian country and also consolidating the project of a Reus who at that time was active in the Second Division.
Two weeks ago, a Barcelona judge also declared Laporta and Olivé under investigation for never returning. an investment of 4.7 million from a single person who had received the Primitive.
The Penal Code punishes aggravated fraud of between four and eight years in prisonin addition to the corresponding financial fine.
