The legal case opened against Alex Bergantiños as a result of the complaint by the League has been provisionally archived. It has been agreed this Thursday and provisionally by the Court of Instruction number 3 of A Coruña. “It has agreed to provisionally dismiss and file the proceedings against Deportivo’s captain, Álex Bergantiños, for the alleged commission of a crime of corruption between private parties,” Magistrate Margarita de Ron explains in his order.
“From the conversation held by the captain with his wardrobe, the existence of any crime is not appreciated,” emphasizes the judge in the car, against which it is possible to file an appeal for reform and subsidiary appeal.
“The accusation made to Bergantiños of trying to alter the results of the competition is surprising, proceeding to his arrest in an untimely manner, even transferring police officers from the capital to do so, without practicing any test with players from the other team, for example,” he emphasizes the instructor in the car “
The magistrate insists that the National Police Center for Integrity in Sports and Gambling (CENPIDA) has not provided “any objective and serious evidence or indication of criminality beyond a conversation in a tone of confidence between the player and his colleagues on the circumstances in which it had been agreed to hold the match against Fuenlabrada ”.
The judge refers in the order to the convergence of “extraordinary circumstances that made this game difficult to compare with other parties, as is public and well-known, for which CENPIDA was also aware of it.”
Thus, he emphasizes that Deportivo, in the event of “rigging” the match, “would only get three points that would not save them from relegation,” so “Fuenlabrada would be the one that could be favored by an alleged match between clubs, given that this team was the only one that, in principle, except for what was administratively decided, was gambling the possibility of playing the promotion playoff ”.
Regarding a possible “fix” of the result to obtain profit with sports bets, the magistrate emphasizes in the order that “it would not make any sense, taking into account the result of the match, beating the Herculine city team by two goals to one, with a dizzying end in injury time, hardly foreseeable and much less arranged among the players ”.
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