• The sentence. The 36 players accused of the Levante-Zaragoza fixing were cleared

  • The case: a strange complaint, witnesses who back down and cheap vacations: this is the chronology of the alleged fix in Levante-Zaragoza

Not a single conviction for an alleged sports fix that was eight years under judicial investigation.

Levante-Zaragoza, the last game for both teams in the 2010/11 season, ended with the Aragonese team securing their stay in the First Division with a victory against an already saved rival and with a macro-judgment that put footballers and leaders on the bench.

It was the first case of alleged adulteration of the competition without any gambling mafias involved, which reached a court and that resulted in the acquittal of all the accused.

This has been ratified by the

Provincial Court

of Valencia after the appeal presented by the

Public Prosecutor

to the sentence Criminal Court number 7 of Valencia.

Judge Manuel Aleis acquitted the 36 players from Levante and Zaragoza of the crime of sports fraud.

He found no evidence that the 1.7 million euros that came out of Zaragoza's accounts days before the dispute of the match ended up in the hands of the players of the Granota team, which prevents them from showing that the defeat they suffered could be agreed.

The Anti-Corruption Prosecutor's Office filed an appeal against this ruling, to which the rest of the accusations,

LaLiga

and

Deportivo de la Coruña

,

joined

, which the fourth section of the Provincial Court of Valencia has dismissed, confirming the acquittal of the sports crime to the 36 players from Levante and Zaragoza, coach Javier Aguirre and the then sports director, Antonio Prieto, as well as the general secretary, Francisco Checa, and Real Zaragoza as an entity.

Prescribed offense

The only ones convicted in the process were the former president and maximum shareholder of Zaragoza,

Agapito Iglesias

, and the former financial director

Javier Porquera

.

The judge imposed a sentence of one year and three months in prison for the crime of document falsification in the payrolls that made the players of the Aragonese team sign to justify the departure of 1.7 million from the club, on the verge of bankruptcy.

The judge considers that the defendants "fraudulently justified" the exit of that amount "with the payment of special bonuses to their players for achieving permanence in the First Division."

Now the Provincial Court estimates their appeals presented by both and determines their acquittal after having prescribed the crime of which they were accused.

The Prosecutor's Office will have to decide whether to appeal to the Supreme Court to insist on the convictions or the repetition of the trial or to end a case that has been in court for almost a decade.

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