A size, a hoax, a scam. These are the qualifications that the Prosecutor's Office has used to refer to the Levante-Zaragoza party played in May 2011 and that is judged in Valencia for having been rigged. In his conclusions, the prosecutor Pablo Ponce, has defended that Real Zaragoza agreed to purchase the game with the Levante players in exchange for 1.7 million euros to guarantee a victory that would keep him in the First Division, as it was.

"It was a rigged, simulated game and it was a scam. To sustain another thing after the investigation is to go against common sense. There was dislike of the Levante players to the Real Zaragoza area, we are not going to screw up the bonus for letting us win ", said the prosecutor, who believes that in the first goal of Gabi there was a clear collaboration of the beans. "It helps the sweeper that puts the Levant, who does not jump, Munúa if it gets further, leaves the stadium of the Levant. In addition, in the second goal makes the statue," added Ponce, who believes it proved that during the week before the Zaragoza football players were " more concerned with briefcases than winning the game . "

For more than three hours, the prosecutor argued his accusations, corroborated in this oral phase of the trial.

He recalled that Real Zaragoza could not provide the receipts of the alleged deliveries of cash, and that amounted to 765,000 euros, as a concept of alleged premiums for the permanence of its players and recalled that all involved declared in their respective interrogations that "had never cashed in cash . "

"He lost his trail"

Those 750,000 euros leave Zaragoza "without any contractual obligation" and no player asks for a receipt "because the dome of Real Zaragoza knows what the money is for". On the other 965,000 euros transferred to some soccer players and members of the technical body of the Aragonese dressing room, the prosecutor assures that they were "blackened" and "his trail was lost" without objective reasons being offered.

Therefore, the Aragonese club, which in June 2011 entered into bankruptcy proceedings, made "a distortion of the payroll that has its reflection in accounting" to justify the exit of 1,730,000 million euros that the accusations defend that ended up in the hands of the Levante players, who wanted to "see the money because they will not accept the adjustment if they did not see the money in cash."

The prosecutor explained that the Levante players made " strange operations" in their bank accounts after the game under investigation and that they maintain "abnormal behavior" after the meeting and that this is corroborated by the report, while clarifying that "it is also it is possible that other players not accused "could be bought and that the accused are called because they have the" domain of fact. "

"Objective data"

The prosecutor recalled that, as they have proven with the expert evidence, " there are 11 Levante players with no cash provisions" just after the game and "for a prolonged period of time" and that coincides when they go on vacation after having finished the football season, while five other players make income in their accounts without having previously made withdrawals.

Ponce has referred to a ruling of the Supreme Court to ensure that "the relevant thing is that the evidence must be assessed together", since they have provided "objective data" evidence to trace from the origin of the money in Real Zaragoza to the destination of money in Levante players and that is "what we have tried in this procedure".

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