Mehdi Ait Ahmed, agent of the Algerian player Naoufel Khacef, transferred to Bordeaux last February, filed a complaint against the Spanish sporting director of Bordeaux Eduardo Macia for "illegal exercise of the profession of sports agent" and "swindle in an organized gang", according to the prosecution of Bordeaux joined Friday by AFP. "This complaint that we received recently is under study," said the prosecution, confirming information from the Parisian . It does not target the Girondins club.
At the origin of this complaint, Mehdi Ait Ahmed, holder of a sports agent license issued by the French Football Federation, takes care of the interests of Khacef, a young 22-year-old left-wing player whom he spotted in Algeria. . Responsible for finding him a club in Europe during the last winter transfer window, he contacted the Girondins, exchanged with them, and the scapular club ended up recruiting Khacef in the form of a loan with option to buy at the end of January and got him started. the following month as a reserve team.
A commission valued at 100,000 euros
But a few days after this signature, the agent learns that he is excluded from the file, and therefore potentially from the remuneration of his commission (estimated at 100,000 euros). In the process, his player warns him that he is now working with new representatives, including a former Spanish hairdresser Raquel Herraiz Del Moral, who is not authorized to practice the profession of agent in France, but works in close contact with the sports management of Bordeaux and therefore Eduardo Macia.
Me Damien Legrand. the lawyer of Mehdi Ait Ahmed, quoted by the Parisian , denounces "a system which aims, by instrumentalizing to its detriment the sports agent, to mask the intervention of intermediaries who act in the most total illegality". “There was an agreement beforehand to let my client do the work before dismissing him. These false warrants demonstrate that there was a premeditation, "he continues.
Before filing this complaint, the president of the Girondins Frédéric Longuépée had indicated in the Team that "Mr. Medhi Ait Ahmed intervened as the player's representative and not as the club's agent. The club has never contested his intervention and has always indicated that it was ready to pay his commission in accordance with the rules.
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