A Treasury inspector sentenced to pay 18.8 million euros for defrauding soccer players in Spain

The Court of Madrid has sentenced a head of the Treasury to two years in prison and to pay a

for defrauding more than 6 million from thirty footballers and basketball players, reports Efe.

The court has also sentenced the other three lawyers related to the plot to 8 years in prison.

The sentence considers

as the author of a continued crime of use by a public official of privileged information, for which, in addition to the prison sentence, she is sentenced to five years of disqualification from holding public office and to pay a fine. of 18,843,236 euros,

.

On the other hand, the three lawyers involved,

.,

.

and

., have been sentenced to eight years in prison as the court considers the continued crimes of fraud and forgery in public, official and commercial documents and the use of privileged information obtained from a public official to have been proven, for which they also They will have to pay a fine of 12,000 euros each.

In addition, the four convicted must compensate the public entity with 6,138,797 euros plus the corresponding interest, and Julio LV and Juan Ignacio TS must also compensate the Public Treasury with 142,281 euros.

The sentence considers subsidiary civil liability to the mercantile

-whose administrator is Julio LV- for the amount of 3,648,447.15 euros and

-managed by Manuel VJ- for the amount of 1,399,609.92 euros .

Among the affected footballers, none of them aware of the plot, are the former Real Madrid players

and

;

former Atlético de Madrid soccer

and

;

and

(Mallorca, Osasuna and Leganés),

(Seville, Valencia and Córdoba) or Emir Spahic (Seville).

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