Two Coma -Ruga sisters who invested 200,000 euros in the failed project of Reus Deportiu, – that promoted Joan Laporta and Joan Oliver, – they say that the president of Barça offered to hire them recently in the Barca club to settle that debt. Laporta proposed that the Barca club return the money by providing them with a fictional job for which they would charge a salary without going to work until the debt will pay. This is stated in the documentary ‘Laportagate’, which has been presented this Wednesday in Barcelona, and that has been financed by those affected in the business that ultimately made Reus Deportiu disappear. The proposal, always according to its version, came through its financial advisor, Sandra S. “It was like a mercadona,” they comment, insinuating that it is a recurring route used by the current board of directors to compensate for other investors who caught the fingers the sisters also reveal that his brother who was painter of paintings and also invested, offered him that the Barça would buy the works of art until he returned the works of art.
The documentary has been prepared by the small investors who participated in Reus Deportiu and who are still not charged today. The avant -garde It has had access to the case documentation. They denounce that although they were guaranteed 6% interest in capital, they have not yet received the amount committed. In recent years, up to four complaints have been filed for fraud for those events, of which three have been accepted in courts of Barcelona. Elaporta is charged in two of them and could be summoned to appear as investigated in the last complaint presented by the Coma-Ruga sisters.
Three courts investigate the drivers of the Failed Project of the Reus, two of them to Laporta
The Reus Deportiu project intended to catapult a centenary institution to the First Division and create a kind of farmhouse in China to serve as a catwalk with the Reus. The idea also intended to capture Chinese soccer players in an Operación Triunfo -type television show, designed by the former trinca member, Toni Cruz. The documentary, which has been made by journalist Andreu Rauet, shows connections between Barça and Reus. Bryan Wagner, who was director of CSSB, the shareholder of the Reus based in Hong Khong, was appointed director of Barça in China and then in the United States when Laporta returned to the presidency of the club. Joan Sentelles, who was a member of Reus, is currently operational director of Espai Barça and is responsible for the works of the new Camp Nou. Pere Mellado, who was secretary at the Reus Board is the current Director of Legal Services of Barça. And Toni Cruz is the current director of Barça One, the club’s audiovisual platform.
People linked to the Reus project currently work at Barça
The cake sisters were 62 and 60 when their financial advisor, Sandra S. offered them a business that they could not miss. Hearing the proposal arched his eyebrows and warned him that they did not see it clear. That investment escaped from low -risk operations to which they were accustomed. Always according to her version, the advisor insisted, she told them that this product “would take it out of their hands” and that the people who driven him were guarantee of success and could not throw their image by land. Behind that investment were Joan Laporta and Joan Oliver, former president and former general director of Barça and the investment project was to ascend to Reus Deportiu. The Baix Camp club was expelled the Second Division League in 2019 for accumulated debts and for the default of the football players. In 2020 its dissolution was ordered.
The sisters agreed to the trust that the advisor deserved and invested the money they had received from an inheritance from their father: 100,000 euros each that had to report 6% interest. The firm occurred in 2016, but nine years later they have not yet paid the debt. After receiving the last payment in 2019 and never for the full amount, the two affected filed a complaint for fraud against Oliver, Laporta, the financial advisor and her partner. In 2022, Oliver and Laporta reached an agreement with the sisters to settle the debt and withdrew the complaint. The amounts related to the investment in Core Store were charged – one of the companies with participation in the reus- but in the absence of information by another operation in CSSB, – the majority company of the Reus – the sisters filed another complaint in August in August 2024. In this case they point to the former director Xavier Sala I Martín and Rafael Yuste, current sports vice president who seconded the initial project. The court must rule on whether the complaint accepts.
In the different judicial ramifications derived from the management of Reus Deportiu, Laporta and Joan Oliver and the rest of the investigated defend that they were operations that went wrong, but that they were not born with the aim of deceiving. In fact, the first complaint filed was filed by the Court of Instruction 6 of Barcelona that understood that it was a breach of contract and rejected that it was a scam. “We were faced with a breach of a loan contract that the complaints (LapTa, Oliver and the rest) completed for several years when paying interest, but when they stopped doing so they raised a way of solving the breach that was not to his liking,” wrote the magistrate. The sisters filed a resource and the audience ordered the investigation to reopen. That cause, however, was settled with an agreement.
The rest of the complainants are a family to whom the primitive lottery touched and invested 4.7 million euros in the failed project of Reus and the professional tennis player Albert Ramos who lent 100,000 dollars to Laporta and Oliver.
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