The judge exonerates the former Valladolid captain Borja Fernández although he "suspects" that he fixed the match against Valencia

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The Court of First Instance and Instruction number 5 of

exonerates the former captain of

,

, of the match that his team played against Valencia (played on May 18, 2019 and which ended with the victory of the visiting team by 0-2) and is being investigated.

The instructor of the so-called '

' maintains that there is a "

"of Fernández's participation in the events (it should be remembered that he was detained by the Police) but underlines that" a sufficient conviction has not emerged, derived from a solidly constructed inductive logical judgment, which allows a formal imputation and, where appropriate , the opening of an oral trial. "The judge emphasizes that his decision does not imply a" severe reproach "to the Police, which he maintains that he is not" in question. "

"It must be taken into account that, in the investigation and prosecution of this type of crime (soccer matches) it

, unless there is a confession of a player or manager of a club involved" , he continues.

"The usual thing is to have indirect or circumstantial evidence, which requires a complex intellectual process of reconstruction of a concrete fact from a collection of evidence."

The instructor emphasizes that "the detailed list of facts" presented by the Police is "plural, cohesive and of a singularly incriminating nature."

"The same is true of the inference judgment, which is reasonable and consistent."

"In other words, there is a logical connection between the evidence presented by the Police (preparatory telephone conversations for the alleged tampering, invitations to gamble in a specific direction, meeting between corrupters and the captain of the team to be corrupted, etc.) and the incriminating conclusion reached (predetermination of the result of the soccer match by those investigated) ".

Finally, he highlights that the conversations held by the supposed leaders of the plot,

(the latter even said that there were "seven players bought" from Valladolid) and

, the meeting he had with the latter in a bar in Valladolid before of the match or their performance during the match are

.

Nor was the fact that Fernández "

, which could have been due to not wanting to leave a trace of the conversation but also to freeing up memory on the mobile phone."

"Ultimately, there is a reasonable suspicion of the participation of Fernández in the events investigated, but not a sufficient conviction," he adds.

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