Ten years after their passage in Marseille, football Pérez Bakayoko and Moses remake for themselves on the Canebière. Their transfers, made between 1997 and 1999, exemplify the appeal of the trial "accounts of OM. A sales network of players in place by some allowed to earn commissions and bribes.
Two influential agents:
It manages since 1980 the best interests of Players lights. Among them, a host of internationals have worn the jersey of OM: Cantona, Ribéry, Nasri ... Brilliant businessman, Zidane owes particular record transfer to Real Madrid for 76 million euros Ludovic Giuly - more wholesale transfer of the offseason - Samir Nasri to Arsenal, the Ménez ASRoma, Squillachi of Seville. It is also highly skilled in communication. In the wake of Zidane's headbutt on Materazzi in the World Cup final 2006, it was he who orchestrated the confession of Worldvision No. 10 of the Blues on the board of Canal +. In it is not only officiating, he gets help from a ghost: Jean Pierre Bernès.
Jean-Pierre Bernès
We remember him for his role in the OM-VA and he was sentenced to two years in prison after the trial. The former director general of the club since he left the facts heading for the various transfers, hence its name in large stretches. Perfect geek friend of milieuet Migliaccio, Berns became an agent of player and has just created a new market: the coaches. The recent signings of Alain Perrin at Lyon, Guy Roux at Lens and Laurent Blanc at Bordeaux bear his mark. He still occupies an important place in French football, so it is said that a FIFA registered agent must present evidence of ... morality, a contribution of 120,000 euros per year (that's two conditions are easy to fill ) but how is it that nobody knows that the third condition is impossible to present a criminal record. Jean-Pierre Bernès now has another shot on the foot, the accounts of the club Marseille. Two scandals that resulted in convictions in 1995 - eighteen months suspended prison sentence for bribery - and 1998 - two years suspended sentence - and that should have been permanently excluded from world football's former director General OM. Yet, after nearly fifteen radiation supposedly for life by the French Football Federation, Berns is a key figure of French football and will remain so.
Rolland Courbis, the former Marseille coach was arrested shortly after the final whistle of the match Marseille-Montpellier, and detained at the police station in Marseille. He was imprisoned at the prison Baumettes.
The former coach of the OM was under an arrest warrant since 2007 under the suspicious transfers of the club between 1997 and 1999. Counsel for the technician explained the reason for this inquiry: "It's standard procedure. We knew he had made a remaining sentence. He has received a letter inviting him to visit but did not go get him, that's why he was arrested. "
He was tried on appeal, together the main shareholder of the club, Robert Louis-Dreyfus, and several agents and intermediaries, to the case of suspicious transfers of players between 1997 and 1999. The attorney general had requested confirmation of the sentences imposed at trial: three and a half years in prison, five years of prohibition to practice the profession of coaching in France and 375 000 euro fine for Courbis, three year suspended sentence and 375 000 euro fine for Robert Louis-Dreyfus, for complicity in abuse of corporate assets.
The magistrate has not been kind to Courbis, in particular, that less than three months after conviction tax, it had opened an account in Switzerland which have passed the funds generated through fraudulent transfers. He who led Montpellier (Ligue 2) had yet changed tactics, making amends: "I may have unwittingly committed a complicity to abuse of corporate assets (ABS). But I did not even know what that meant ABS! "He said at the helm.
Rolland Courbis had already been sentenced in 1995 to three years in jail for tax fraud and false invoices in the case Accounting occult at the Sporting Club Toulon, where he coached in the late 80s. The inquiry follows from these two convictions. He still has 21 months imprisonment to be served.
The practices are suspicious of Olympique Marseille on transfers in which almost 28 million € have transited from 1997 to 1999 to fraudulently benefit alleged players, intermediaries and the former Coach Rolland Courbis, are considered in Marseille.
Fourteen defendants will appear March 31 before the criminal court, including the shareholder principal and former president of Olympique Marseille, Robert Louis-Dreyfus, former executive presidents of the club Jean-Michel Roussier and Yves Marchand and Rolland Courbis.
They are mainly prosecuted for abuse or complicity in abuse of corporate assets, while the club after a bankruptcy filing in 1995, was still full of financial abuse: 43M € of cumulative losses between July 1997 and June 2000. None of the 15 players involved in these transfers is continued, the statement not having found it useful to contrast the opinion of the prosecutor.
According to the indictment, the amounts of transfers were almost always overvalued by 15% to 25% to embed a hidden bonus paid to the player by the selling club. Objectives: To OM underestimate the player's salary, and thus pay lower charges for the player and pay less tax.
Installation of transfer of Laurent Blanc, recruited in Barcelona in June 1997, would have saved two FM payroll. Christophe Dugarry (ex-Barcelona too) would have enjoyed the same advantage in December 1997. Justice Rolland Courbis suspect, who holds an account in a Swiss bank to have received retrocession of commissions in the double transfer for $ 4 MF. He is also suspected have received funds in the transfer of Ghanaian Arthur Moses, from Toulon to Marseilles. Was there a tacit agreement between Robert Louis-Dreyfus and Curves for the coach, subject to a tax adjustment of over 9 MF, collect revenue occult?
Both men have resorted to unauthorized agents by the International Federation (FIFA), while shipments of South American players who have paid into the account management staff of foreign clubs, and a slew of financial companies. The opportunity to pursue those responsible for the club has not been entered yet. Too bad, because such practices have been held outside the OM and remain commonplace in football.
Heavily convicted at trial, most of the actors involved in suspicious transfers to Olympique Marseille between 1997 and 1999, the club shareholder Robert Louis-Dreyfus and his former coach Rolland Courbis for which the stakes are high, are considered in Aix-en-Provence in use from today.
Sentences June 9, 2006 had caused a shock among the 14 defendants, considered mainly for aiding and abetting abuse or misuse of corporate assets during these 15 transfers sometimes prestigious (White, Dugarry, Ravanelli ...) that would have generated 22 million euros flow fraudulent benefit of players, intermediaries, agents and curves itself.
"Outrageous and unfair" and had launched the lawyers "DRC", sentenced to three years suspended sentence and 375 000 euros fine. "Sanction disproportionate" Courbis had resumed at the stroke of three and a half years in prison, 375 000 euros fine and disqualification for five years in football. Only one defendant, former sports director Marcel Dib OM, was acquitted.
Three weeks, questionable practices of OM regarding transfers had been shelled, amid recurrent shortcomings in the management of the club: regular use of offshore companies, intermediaries illegitimate or unlicensed, or opaque financial arrangements
improbable ... The line of defense "DRC" had been seriously shaken. In a statement to tears, he explained at the hearing have found "widespread fraud" that would have been "hidden." Maintaining its commitment to a club that will rediscover the Champions League could indeed depend on the decision, even if nothing is gained.
The other main issue concerns the trial Rolland Courbis, who spends Montpellier bench which he is the coach at one of the accused. The only accused in the coup of jail hopes he can complete his mission on the bench Herault.
The Court of Appeal of Aix-en-Provence has lowered the sentences in the case of suspicious transfers of Olympique Marseille between 1997 and 1999, condemning the former coach Rolland Courbis to two years in prison and the main shareholder Robert Louis-Dreyfus to ten months suspended sentence.
's conviction "DRC" for abuse of corporate assets (ABS) from three-year suspended sentence and fined 375,000 euros, made by the Correctional Court of Marseille in June 2006, a 10-month suspended sentence and 200,000 euros in fine.
If it has not proportionately benefited from a favorable review as "DRC" Courbis beyond what would have been worse for him: a disqualification in football for five years. She had yet been sought against him in court last June.
Indicted for complicity in particular ABS and concealment, the current coach of Montpellier scoop, however, a strong year and one year revocation of suspended sentence, related to the case of SC Toulon slush funds in the late 1980s, as well as 200,000 euros fine.
significantly less than three and a half years in prison (two years + 18 month revocation of suspended sentence), 375,000 euros fine and disqualification for five years a football-related activities, as judged trial.
"I am happy and satisfied to have been partially heard, but heard anyway, and can continue to do my job, "said the coach Montpellier (L2), prosecuted by an impressive swarm of cameras at the exit of the courthouse." As for penalties, we will discuss with our lawyers, given the fact that here 17 years ago, I already did three and a half months on remand, "he said.
Relying remand this fall 1990, counsel for Courbis will indeed try to negotiate an adjustment of his sentence prison, theoretically possible only up to a year closes, and enable them to continue to "coach".
"We hope he can finish the season in Montpellier," said one of his lawyers, Mr. Frédéric Monneret. Michel Mézy, presidential advisor club Montpellier Nicollin Louis, was more optimistic again, "I am sure he will finish the season with us."
The fate of "DRC", absent from the hearing because of business travel in China, also generally satisfied with his defense: "We see a considerable reduction of sentence. This is a huge step in favor of Robert Louis-Dreyfus, even if it is insufficient and that we would have welcomed the release, "responded Ms. Sophie Botta.
" It happens, "she continued, d a sentence of guilty to a heavy sentence rather symbolic, aimed more negligence of a boss, not there to monitor what was happening at the club. "
The appeals court, however, spoken three sentences of imprisonment, in those cases transfers have generated EUR 22 million in fraudulent money: cons the players' agent Gilbert Sau (18 months), against his accomplice Bernard Almeras (6 months) and against former officer and current vice-president of Standard Liege, Licio d'Onofrio (6 months).
Prison sentences were suspended, with fines were imposed against the agents of players Jean-Francois Larios and Edmond Adam, Charles and cons Camporro, former sports director of Bordeaux.
Intermediate German Rolf Wegener and counsel Denys Angeloglou were acquitted.
OM "who harbored serious doubts about the reality and the merits" of these assets "claimed for the first After more than five years "after such transfers within the text, has finally released the funds claimed" in light of new documents produced "by Sau. To push the OM to pay, Sau, residing in Switzerland, had obtained justice Swiss make it "sequester" the money from UEFA. Based in Nyon (Switzerland), it indeed pays regular duties at OM. Highly influential in the OM in the late 1990s, Sau was finally sentenced in October 2008 by the Supreme Court to 18 months firm and disqualification for his involvement in various fraudulent transfers OM from 1997 to 1999 have been the subject of lawsuits in 2006 and 2O07.
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