The Justice of France this Wednesday banned the sale of 1986 World Cup Golden Ball that won Diego Armando Maradona and ordered its seizure until the dispute over what happened to the trophy is resolved.
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In his decision, the Versailles Court of Appeal endorsed the claim of the heirs of Maradonawho allege that the object, which reappeared in 2016 after being lost for almost three decades, had been stolen from a bank safe in Naples in 1989.
Diego Maradona.
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Maradona (Diego Armando Maradona Sinagra, Dalma and Gianinna Maradona, Jana Maradona and Diego Fernando Maradona).
Moreu, However, he said to wait “a long legal battle”, until it is decided who is the owner of the trophy, since there are two procedures, one through criminal proceedings and the other through civil proceedings. Until the appeal presented by the Maradonas, Abdelhamid B. He was considered the legal owner of the trophy in France, because he bought it in good faith – he did not know that it was the Ballon d’Or – and because after that acquisition three years passed without anyone from the Maradona family claiming it.
Abdelhamid B. He had bought the trophy for 1.20 euros at a second-rate auction in Paris and could have sold it at Aguttes for more than 10 million euros, according to estimates by the auction house itself.
Diego Armando Maradona
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The seizure of Golden Ball, an unusual measure, it responds to the family’s fear Maradona for it to disappear again. The object, in the possession of the Aguttes auction house, will pass into the hands of a Justice officer who will seize it until the dispute over the ownership of the Ball is resolved.
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