Bolivia
A complaint reached the Bolivian newspaper about the payment of social benefits to former employees of the Bolivian Football Federation.
The accusation says that “the Ethics and Compliance Officer of the Bolivian Football Federation, who has served as a labor lawyer since 2018 (in reference to Marco León), has (allegedly) appropriated money corresponding to former FBF officials, to whom it corresponds in law after having won a labor process in the legal and corresponding instances.
The complaint is accompanied by numerical data (see table) of the amounts that were delivered to León.
Later, it says that “(the lawyer) paid less money than what is registered in the FBF, the only thing they have to verify is with the beneficiaries, if what is registered in the FBF is what they really received. My complaint is that the lawyer Marco León took money in favor of him and not the beneficiary with 100% of the debt and only gave the beneficiaries less than 30% ”.
To corroborate the veracity of the complaint, Bolivia Deportes questioned officials and former Accounting officials of the Bolivian Football Federation about how much money was paid to the former workers mentioned in the complaint for social benefits, before giving a response they asked for the anonymity in order to avoid retaliation.
“Checks were issued for the total amount indicated in the court order for the payment of social benefits to former officials, that is in the accounting books of the Federation,” said a source.
SEAS SURPRISE
The former doctor of the Bolivian National Team Henry Seas was surprised by the complaint in which the amounts he received and that he had to collect for social benefits are revealed.
“Surprised with that complaint about the payment of social benefits, which has proof that the money from the Federation has come out so that we are paid in full and not a percentage,” said Seas.
He recalled that in the first instance he met with Marco León and the former president of the FBF César Salinas (+), when they offered to fix him in a good way and for a much lower amount than they had to pay him. The appointment took place at the Marriot hotel in Santa Cruz.
“A month later León called me and offered me another amount, something improved but that did not meet my expectations; A few days later he offered me 50% and I accepted not to go to a long trial. He made an appointment with me at the Cortez hotel and before he canceled he told me that he was going to sign a receipt for the total, which was for an administrative and internal control issue. My mistake was not taking him to my lawyer. The funny thing was that he paid me the 25 thousand dollars in cash, something that caught my attention, because I always cashed by check and signed a receipt that was not official, “he said.
Finally, he said that lawyer Omar Dorado will represent him to collect the total of his social benefits.
He assured that León made the same proposal to Gustavo Romanello (former coach of minor divisions), Javier Silva (former press chief) and Enrique Sanjinez (ex-striker).
In the case of Romanello, he said that León called him to settle the matter, leaving aside his sponsor, the lawyer Víctor Hugo Pérez.
“The truth, I signed. It will be so much my idiocy, confidence, that not a receipt I kept. I signed, got the money and left. Now I found out that it was supposedly the total debt that he was signing and that the rest of the money was collected by them (without specifying names), ”said coach Romanello.
For his part, the president of the FBF, Fernando Costa, in the conference he gave together with the National Team’s coach, César Farías, said that “the case will be investigated, because we want a transparent management in the institution.”
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