Domínguez’s statements had been made inside the framework of Soccer Week, a joint initiative of CONMEBOL and Particular Olympics (REUTERS/Cesar Olmedo)
“It’s cash that ought to be on the soccer subject, within the growth of the game, not within the pockets of the leaders, of the highly effective,” stated Alejandro Domínguez, president of Conmebol, in relation to the grievance for alleged cash laundering. in Paraguay carried out in 2017, and whose investigation is paralyzed.
His phrases got here inside the framework of the inauguration of Soccer Week, a joint initiative of Conmebol and Particular Olympics, based mostly on an inclusive imaginative and prescient of soccer. The chief additionally assured that the Confederation “will redouble efforts to recuperate funds appropriated by leaders, with the complicity of monetary establishments.” Santiago Peña, president of Paraguay, attended the occasion accompanied by members of his cupboard.
Up to now, Conmebol has achieved the restitution of round 150 million {dollars} by actions carried out in the USA, Switzerland and Paraguay. The start line was the completion of an audit in 2017.
The entity not too long ago introduced a request to the Prosecutor’s Workplace to reactivate the felony case for alleged cash laundering to which Domínguez referred, which includes former president Nicolás Leoz and Banco Atlas SA. In 2016, the aforementioned former head of the Confederation negotiated the creation of two trusts price greater than USD 6,000,000 with the aforementioned banking entity, when a world arrest warrant and an extradition request had been already pending in opposition to him. Nevertheless, the felony investigation by the Public Ministry has been on maintain for 3 years (the final proceedings had been the raid of Banco Atlas SA and the Superintendency of Banks). This motivated the presentation by the Confederation and a private interview of Domínguez with the State Lawyer Normal, Emiliano Rolón Fernández.
“Since 2017, Paraguay has modified its president 3 times (Horacio Cartes, beneath whose authorities the primary grievance was filed; Mario Abdo Benítez and Santiago Peña) and two attorneys common (Sandra Quiñónez and Emiliano Rolón Fernández),” Conmebol illustrated in an announcement. through which he requests the return of the cash “stolen from South American soccer.”
Throughout his speech on the opening of Soccer Week, Domínguez added that the recovered cash is used for the enlargement of the optimistic values of sport and confused: “We aren’t going to cease till justice is finished, we are going to confront the highly effective who nonetheless have the ability.” soccer cash.”
“The restoration of cash from the palms of corruption turns into tangible with initiatives equivalent to this Soccer Week, which seeks to advertise an inclusive and plural imaginative and prescient of sport,” concluded the writing launched by the mom entity of the self-discipline on the continental stage.
