The Prosecutor's Office has requested that Sheikh Abdullah Bin Nasser Al Thani , and his sons Nasser - delegated counselor -, Nayef and Rakan -voles-, be removed from the management of Málaga CF, after receiving a police report, documentation from the Football League Professional (LFP) and the Higher Sports Council (CSD) that would point to alleged "evidence of crime." A petition that occurred on Tuesday morning in a hearing that has not appeared the owner of the blue and white club, despite being cited with his family.

Al Thani is being investigated by the National Police after the holder of the Court of Instruction number 14 of Malaga admitted a complaint for the commission of the alleged crimes of unfair administration, misappropriation and imposition of abusive corporate agreements. Judicial offensive promoted by the Association of Small Shareholders (APA), and to which the City of Malaga has joined, after detecting that the Qatari investor and his children allegedly received 4.5 million euros from the club for loans and credits .

The investigation diligence that was to be practiced on Tuesday accelerated after it has been found that the four defendants lack diplomatic immunity, as this newspaper learned. But the club owner has not finally appeared before the judge. In their place they have done the general director of the team, Richard Shaheen , and the prestigious lawyer Jesús Santos, known for having advised Cristiano Ronaldo in the case against him for tax fraud and the PP in the Gürtel case .

Both arrived at the City of Justice of Malaga shortly before 10:00 and have tried to have their eyesight postponed when a problem with the powers was detected. The Superior Court of Justice of Andalusia (TSJA) has informed that the lawyer "has requested the approval of an international rogatory commission so that the declaration can be carried out by videoconference from Qatar". The judge will transfer this petition to the rest of the parties involved in the case and subsequently resolve.

Santos, on the other hand, "had not appeared in a statutory manner until this morning." Finally, this Tuesday he has requested his personification again and has been provisionally admitted with the condition that in the next three days he presents the documentation required to be a party to the complaint, said source said.

The lawyer of the APA, Francisco Valverde , has highlighted as a victory the change of position of the Prosecutor, which now supports a judicial administrator to take over the management during the next six months. A period that the complainants believe should be extended until June 30, 2021.

Valverde has been comforted because the documentation provided by the Higher Sports Council and the report delivered by the National Police to the Prosecutor's Office would endorse his thesis, since it would supposedly release " evidence of criminality " that underpin the request that Al Thani are removed from the club while the investigation is taking place.

The investigating judge must now decide if she also changes her position and authorizes a judicial administrator to take over the reins of the club. It will be during the study of the appeal presented by the complainants to their initial refusal to adopt this precautionary measure.

It must also resolve on the deposit of 5 million euros that Al Thani should pay to face possible responsibilities. In the event that they could not deposit the money, the seizure of property could be decreed, explained the lawyer of the APA.

LFP requirement

The judicial subpoena of Al Thani and his three children has been preceded by a ruling by the investigating judge addressed to the Professional Football League. The document, issued on February 4, asks you to report if the blue and white team, "as of June 30, 2018", and currently, meets the financial fair play and if the current management of the team compromises its viability.

In addition, he asks " how many Second Division football clubs have boards of directors whose members receive some kind of compensation and, where appropriate, the amount they receive annually in each one." And ask that you report the content and send a copy of "any requirement made to the Sports Corporation (SAD) Málaga CF", as well as the date on which it was made and the person or entity to which it was addressed.

Previously, specifically on December 23, the judge issued an official letter to the National Police so that, in a first step, she investigated "the patrimonial situation of the defendants, [...] with special incidence of companies registered in Spain in the listed as administrators "the Al-Thani.

This measure was followed by intervention by agents of the Money Laundering Group of the Provincial Police of Malaga that on January 22 they developed in the offices of the La Rosaleda stadium. The investigators, according to judicial sources, had as a guideline "to collect economic data from the club" and "to take documentation and dump the contents of the computers". From the result of the analysis of the information requested, a fourth offense against Al Thani could be sustained: money laundering.

The president of the malaguista group, meanwhile, has turned to Twitter again to get entangled in a new controversy . His goal, this time, has been the president of the LFP, Javier Tebas , whom he has asked about the rights of Málaga CF after the club representative expressed his opinion on the sanction against Manchester City.

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