Arsene Wenger has told L'Equipe in 2006 to about Tapie years at OM: "I ' had tried to alert. For that to be careful. I could not prove anything, regrets the current coach of Arsenal. It was very hard. At the time, we lived in the sense of corruption and doping. There was nothing worse than knowing that the dice were loaded. " Wenger will recognize until it was disturbed by faults in the visible commitment of some of his players. "I had doubts and I shared some of them. (...) It's not even bother to slow down. Just take a corner kick just over one meter left or right a little, not to be very well placed. Enough is enough and can even give the impression of being a good game also. " the early 90s, Arsene Wenger said he could not be champion of France against Marseille. "It was a great team with outstanding players. It could be a record on its own qualities, "he laments today. Christopher Robert played at ASM at the time ...
According to ABC, the English newspaper, Gennadios Petrov, Chief of the powerful Russian mafia "Tambovskaya" and one of his deputies said, when intercepted telephone communications, having mobilized between 20 and 40 million euros to "buy" the semi-finals and final of the UEFA Cup 2008 on behalf of Zenit St. Pétesbourg. Another English newspaper, El Pais, for its part, assured that in a taped telephone conversation, Gennadios Petrov "claimed that 50 million had been paid to Bayern. He did not specify if it was dollars, euros or rubles, but asserted that the figure was correct and that there had been payment.
The slush fund is the secret funding of a club from funds that do not appear in accounting and that can be used without control.
Do not be naive! all clubs had to own one at some point, but the code of silence is golden and controls difficult. When parte dirty money, it often confuses two things: money laundering and slush funds. It's not like . Basically, money is inclusion in their official finance institution, the proceeds of illicit activities: drugs, arms trafficking, prostitution, theft, etc.. The black boxes are used, instead, out of legitimate funds to an illegitimate destination. This returns to sum up a reserve money hidden from a legal flow.
The nature of fraud:
The nature of fraud depends mostly country and its legal environment. In some regions, particularly Eastern and countries of South America, controls are lax or nonexistent. The the most elementary methods of corruption can then be implemented without risks: one spins envelopes or kits tickets to players, officials, or we pay money squarely on the club account. For the countries of Western Europe, fraudsters have more sophisticated ways. They use front companies located in tax havens. Football is not very different from other spheres of society.
means the constitution of the slush fund:
There are different means. In the past, the establishment of a double ticket was originally of several scandals. At the time, places were not numbered in stages. It was easy to duplicate strains of tickets already sold and the back on the market, which generated revenue unreported slush fund to feed. It is difficult now to do even black money with the box office.
Instead, the transfer of players allows this kind of malfeasance. Fixtures modeled on that of stock market manipulation are then performed. Imagine the situation of a player whose transfer is officially 5 million. In reality, the transaction takes place on 7 million euros and it manages to split the difference between recipients : agents, officers, or the club itself which is and a slush fund. In fact, any contract which underestimates the value of a player is suspect.
It even happens that organizes true media campaigns to achieve this. Three months before the sale of a player, we request to one or more accomplices journalists and influential issue reservations about the value of the player in question to warrant an abnormally low selling price. Once uploaded, the player is much better in his new club.
utlise It also grants normally Sections lovers club to feed the slush fund. That's what that, in the jargon, is called a "siphoning". There are also contracts called "lease with option purchase." It provides, with a club or intermediary, buying a player to a year or two. We pay the sum provided to enable the option, but a clause in the contract specifies that whether by maturity, the sale is not effective, the acquiring club gets the money. Of course, we will be arranged in advance with the club through a third company in a tax haven, for the money and he reshared feeds slush funds.
The benefits of a slush fund:
The advantage of forming a slush fund is premeir place to tap into it without making accounts. Some cash is diverted and personally, and it also at all levels of the organization. This can be a coach rogue, a perverted officer, a president . These funds may also be used for everything that is not legal. black boxes can be used, for example, pay directly or indirectly individuals have a great power in a given situation. This also covers everything within the system classic corruption since the little gift pregame up networks organized.
clubs sometimes draw in to pay premiums during occult player transfers or according results. This also allows manipulate player salaries. We fix a rate low enough artificially reduce payroll, but it pays big "extras" to players. The slush fund may also be useful for significant finance illicit pharmacy, a trade doping products or other purchases that obviously can not appear in the accounts of the club.
