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A week after the broadcast of a report in Belgium on the corruption taking place in the transfers of footballers, the justice of the kingdom has taken a new step in Operation Clean Hands, which particularly targets two agents, Mogi Bayat and Dejan Veljkovic. If the first named refuses to collaborate with justice, the second is a repentant, having exchanged confessions against a reduction of sentence.
We thus learn that with the complicity of the agents, a dozen clubs would have deceived the local tax authorities via the transfers of players for a sum of around 31 M €. Standard, Anderlecht, FC Bruges, Genk, a club headed by Mogi Bayat’s brother, or even Mechelen are those who have defrauded the most through false contracts. After such revelations, the Belgian justice will be able to before more quickly in its investigation and to make the link (or not) with Mogi Bayat. Some overseas media are also announcing a rapid closure of the file. So we should soon know …
Operation Clean Hands: more than 30 million euros in false contracts, a dozen clubs involved https://t.co/3yyTL4riVX #rsca
– walfoot (@walfoot) October 6, 2021
A repentant Belgian agent makes revelations
Dejan Veljkovic is one of the two main agents targeted by the Belgian justice in Operation Clean Hands with Mogi Bayat. And he made explosive revelations about how clubs have taken advantage of bogus contracts to evade taxes.