The leaders who were part of the executive committee of the Colombian Football Federation In 2015, when the Fifagate scandal broke, they were once again in the crosshairs of the Prosecutor’s Office, which began to investigate their assets.
The Asset Laundering Unit ordered the origin of the assets of various members and former members of the highest soccer entity in Colombia and a former director of Dimayor to be established.
(In context: Why is the Prosecutor’s Office investigating the fortunes of Jesurún and other soccer ‘tsars’?)
Why the Federation leaders are in the crosshairs
It should be remembered that the president of the time, Luis Bedoya, He unexpectedly resigned from his position in November 2015 and appeared before the US court. Accepted crimes of bank transfer fraud and bribery conspiracy. The sentence was announced for this Friday, but the defense of the ex-leader requested a new extension, the ninth in his case.
Ramón Jesurún, Vice President of the Federation at that time and today the highest leader of the entity, appears in those investigations of the Prosecutor’s Office. EL TIEMPO requested their version of the matter, but the FCF responded that they were not going to comment on it.
Ramón Jesurún’s position on the subject
However, Jesurún touched on the subject in an interview with the journalist Carlos Antonio Velez, of Antena 2. “A little surprised, but it seems very good to me. They are talking about Fifagate, not the issue of the ballots, as some have wanted to show. It is an issue that happened six and a half years ago and the US authorities have investigated it and here in Colombia they have found absolutely nothing, “he said.
“Now, the Prosecutor’s Office decided to make an investigation of all the members of the Executive Committee from the time before Fifagate, to review their assets. Which I confess is annoying, haha, but I think it’s great that they do. We are fully available to deliver the information they require, “added the leader.
(In other news: Grigori Méndez got revenge after 25 years)
Jesurún assured that, since Bedoya resigned from the Federation and went to the United States, he never had contact with him again.
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