Joan Laporta has been charged by the Court of Instruction number 2 of Barcelona for a crime of aggravated fraud for allegedly diverting an investor’s money to China and subsequently appropriating his funds. The leader will have to testify as a defendant on January 16 at 11:00 in the morning, as dictated by the judge.uez Ignacio Sánchez in an order issued on October 10 and revealed by El Confidencial. According to this information, in addition to Laporta, they will also have to appear as investigated for the same crime, an intermediary who allegedly participated in collecting the money, Sandrá Solé, and the journalist Joan Oliver, personal friend of Laporta and general director of Barcelona when the Catalan lawyer led the club in its first stage.
It must be taken into account that the Penal Code punishes aggravated fraud with between four and eight years in prisonin addition to a financial fine. Laporta’s accusation came after a complaint filed by an individual who in 2016 transferred 50,000 euros into a corporate structure controlled by Laporta under the promise that he would obtain an annual return of six percent.
The money, according to El Confidencial, was delivered through the management company Solé, which guaranteed the complainant the possibility of recover the investment and even rescue the product in a short period of time, influencing the attractiveness of the investment and the multitude of people interested in the product, granting it a preferred option. To finish convincing him, he urged him, assuring him that “he had to hurry since the product was a bargain.”
This project consisted of creation of a football club in Chinathe opening of a Masía similar to that of Barcelona to train and sell players and the consolidation of the Reus sports project, which at that time was in the second division and was owned by Laporta and Oliveramong other partners.
The complainant entered the 50,000 euros in a Chinese bank and months later he obtained a copy of the investment contract and a certificate that accredited him as the owner of a thousand shares of the company. It should be noted that both the investment contract and the certificate of ownership have Laporta’s signature. From then on, the plaintiff no longer had news of his investment. He did not receive the income from the financial returns that he had been assured, nor data about the company, nor was he allowed to undo his investment. Last February he sent a burofax to Laporta but did not receive a response, so he finally opted to file a complaint that has ended with the president’s summons.
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