- Alejandro Domínguez assured that CONMEBOL will proceed the battle “to do justice” and who won’t hesitate “confront the highly effective who nonetheless have the soccer cash”.
- He added that the restoration of cash from the arms of corruption turns into tangible with initiatives resembling Soccer Week, which seeks to advertise an inclusive and plural imaginative and prescient of sport.
- CONMEBOL just lately offered a request to the Prosecutor’s Workplace to reactivate a felony case for alleged cash laundering involving former president Nicolás Leoz and Banco Atlas SA.
“It’s cash that needs to be on the soccer discipline, within the improvement of sport, not within the pockets of the leaders, of the highly effective,” stated Alejandro Domínguez, on the inauguration of Soccer Week, a joint initiative of CONMEBOL and Particular Olympics, primarily based on an inclusive imaginative and prescient of soccer. The chief additionally assured that the Confederation will redouble its efforts to recuperate the funds appropriated by leaders, with the complicity of monetary establishments. The President of the Republic, Santiago Peña, attended the occasion accompanied by members of his cupboard.
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To this point, CONMEBOL has achieved the restitution of round USD 150 million, by actions carried out within the US, Switzerland and Paraguay. The start line was the completion of a forensic audit in 2017, the outcomes of which have been despatched to the US and Paraguayan prosecutors’ places of work.
CONMEBOL has been reporting on alleged cash laundering in Paraguay since 2017. Since that yr, the nation has modified its president thrice (Horacio Cartes, below whose authorities the primary criticism was filed; Mario Abdo Benítez and Santiago Peña) and two prosecutors. generals (Sandra Quiñónez and Emiliano Rolón Fernández). Nonetheless, the investigation has been paralyzed, with out vital progress for no less than three years, when the final steps have been carried out by the Prosecutor’s Workplace, with the raid of Banco Atlas SA and the Superintendency of Banks of the BCP.
In 2016, the previous president of CONMEBOL, Nicolás Leoz, negotiated the creation of two trusts price greater than USD 6,000,000 with Banco Atlas SA, when a global arrest warrant and an extradition request have been already pending in opposition to him. Nonetheless, regardless of all of the indications, the felony investigation by the Public Ministry has been paralyzed for 3 years, which led to the presentation of an attraction by the Confederation and a private interview of Domínguez with the State Lawyer Normal, Emiliano Rolón. Fernández, to deal with this matter.
Throughout his speech on the opening of the inclusive sporting occasion, Domínguez added that the recovered cash is used for the growth of the optimistic values of sport and emphasised that “We aren’t going to cease till we do justice, to confront the highly effective who nonetheless have soccer cash”.
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