Attorney Declares All Crimes of the Osasuna Case Proven
- In his view, Osasuna’s management purchased two matches in 2014, handled the accounts and “deviated well” the money that corresponded to him. It maintains in its conclusions the request for imprisonment for eleven of the accused of the plot.
The prosecutor in the Osasuna case has considered that the facts charged to the 11 defendants in the trial held in recent weeks have been "proven" and has reiterated the requests for imprisonment. "Osasuna's money has disappeared and could not be justified, it has been completely distracted," he said.
The representative of the Public Prosecutor's Office in the presentation of the report on the conclusions of the trial said that the former directors and the former club manager "made the club's money disappear and made false documents" to justify their disappearance.
The prosecutor has stated that "Osasuna's money came out of the club's accounts and we don't know for what purpose it was used", but that part of it was destined to pay the Betis players for predetermining the outcome of the two parties (Betis-Valladolid and Osasuna-Betis in the 2013-2014 season) and to repay a loan from former director José Manuel Purroy.
The prosecutor has therefore maintained his indictment for the crimes of misappropriation, documentary falsehood and corruption in sport against the former CEO and former CEO of Osasuna. Thus, he has asked for the former president Miguel Artxanko and for the former director Jesús Peralta 12 years and 5 months in prison, for the former directors Juan Pascual and Sancho Bandrés 11 years and 9 months, and for the former manager Ángel Bizkaia 5 years and 11 months in prison. In the case of Bizkaia, he had initially requested a sentence of 14 years and 4 months in prison, with the attenuating of confession and collaboration, as he announced last week.
On the other hand, former CEO of Osasuna Diego Makirriain and former players of Betis Antonio Amaya, Xavi Torres and Jordi Figueras have been charged with sporting corruption and have asked for two years in prison for them. Finally, he calls for a year and six months in prison for real estate agents Cristina Valencia and Albert Nolla for falsifying documents, accused of falsifying documents.
The prosecutor has stated that "Osasuna's money has disappeared and it needs to be justified". "Where have the directors used the money and where the manager? That money has disappeared and could not be justified, it has been very distracted," he stressed. "They returned the money in the club's current accounts, used the money from the club's small box and Purroy's brother-in-law also made a private loan of 600,000 euros disappear."
The representative of the Public Prosecutor's Office considers that the "criminal responsibility" of the facts is that of former directors and former manager, "persons responsible for the management of the club's social patrimony".
