Mass murder case: sanctions against Madrid unlikely

Since the beginning of this year, Real Madrid has been involved in the reopening of a false passport trial involving two Endesa league players, Andy Panko (who played for Baloncesto Fuenlabrada) and his ex Marcus Slaughter (at the white club). from 2012 to 2015) are directly involved. Two visas that were one, with the same serial number, as the Supreme Sports Council warned about after a dispute about the competitions for which this passport was valid. Panko did not use it with Fuenla; Slaughter did this in Madrid because they needed to solve a problem with non-EU countries’ quotas. This American is now wanted by the court. With Madrid, in addition to the criminal proceedings in which he is mentioned, the record comes into play: the 2015 League and Cup are in question, after which Slaughter left Spain.

How then can we prove in the courts, and therefore the initiator of the process in recent months is Barça, that Madrid played such a leading role in this process that it was deprived of the aforementioned titles? Here’s the key.

In the Euroleague, quotas do not play a role in decision making. That year, Madrid’s Laso tried and also won both the continental tournament, the Final Four of which was held in the Spanish city, and the Spanish Super Cup, but this procedure does not affect either one. Slaughter received his passport sometime between January and February and played with him in both the Cup and twelve regular League games, as well as the play-offs. The coach had to rotate with two other non-EU citizens, Mexican Gustavo Ayon and Argentinean Facundo Campazzo, until one of the three places became vacant (Marcus Slaughter, who became a citizen of Equatorial Guinea). Although the change of citizenship is completely public, the information is not kept in the passport due to proper data protection. The trial will attempt to unravel the real involvement of Madrid, who claims he was completely unaware of the resulting bureaucratic problem.

Passports are always handled by representative agencies, not clubs. They require certain players, who for this reason are in a better position in the transfer market, to participate in the Cotonou Agreement or become direct members of the European Community. Being Spanish or having a professional license is also a plus in the Endesa League. In his 2017 statement, Marcus stated that he explained that Julián Aranda, his agent in Spain, offered to give him this passport in exchange for $35,000, although he also said that it was “someone from Real Madrid” who gave him a passport. The club denies this. The real explanation is that it may have come into the hands of the player through a Madrid employee, the person in charge of these bureaucratic procedures, which has nothing to do with the club being an ideologue or carrying out any process to obtain it – and yes, it was like that. provided to them so that they have the service information to register it. FEB, the institution that raised the alarm about the duplication of numbers, was consulted internally at the time and CSD and the club maintained their position. Miguel Cardenal, then president of the Supreme Sports Council, said that Real Madrid “sacrifice” In case of fake passports: “I am confident, although I have no evidence for this claim, that a club such as Madrid did not consciously engage in such practices”.

Part of the relative calm with which this news of the prosecution of former player Slaughter was received is part of the Council and consultations that Madrid carried out at the time. It is difficult to prove that the establishment in the Spanish capital had any involvement or connivance when it came to allowing one of the team members to commit legal fraud, both at the sporting level and beyond. Real Madrid’s line of defense was always the same: he acted in good faith in registering the passport (and with which Slaughter participated in two competitions that the team eventually won). It would also be difficult to demonstrate the direct impact of this fact on sports performance, about which institutions such as the High Council or the Endesa League itself could also say something. As for Madrid abandoning its functions by approving the passport without a more demanding check, this is where the offensive will begin with which the prosecution will try to obtain two titles for Barcelona fans.

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