The money laundering unit of the Prosecutor’s office you are looking for the history of assets, and their respective payments, of Ramón Jesurún, current president of the Colombian Football Federation; Alvaro Gonzalez, vice president of the FCF and president of Difutbol; Jorge Perdomo, former president of Dimayor; Luis Bedoya, former president of the FCF; Claudio Javier Cogollo, Juan Hernández and Herney Portilla, who fulfilled different functions in the FCF.
This was revealed by Noticias Uno, medium in which they reported that The investigation is carried out in order to conclude if any of its assets were acquired with the bribes of the remembered ‘Fifagate’, for which one of those named is in jail in USA.
What the asset laundering unit of the Prosecutor’s Office is looking for, they said in the newsletter, It is to know if there was money laundering with any of the capital that they have bought, since most of these men have been leaders of the colombian soccer in different positions and are investigating if they have been involved in this case that has left them captured all over the world.
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Although only Bedoya has been linked to ‘Fifagate’ by the North American justice, This investigation by the Prosecutor’s Office is reactivated after several years without progress, because in 2015 the Citizen Oversight Network asked this entity to find out if the other members of the Colombian Football Federation also received bribes for television broadcasting rights, a crime that Luis Bedoya already accepted, although they have not given him pain.
Once again, the directors of Colombian soccer are linked to scandals related to money, because a few years ago, six of these seven people were sanctioned by the SIC for reselling the ticket office of the matches of the Colombia selection, reason why they had to pay millionaire fines.
This was the report presented in Noticias Uno in which they reveal more details of this investigation for which none of those involved has spoken:
There is a suspicion of money laundering by the leaders of the Federation, who must now explain the incredible increase in their assets in recent years. Video of @NewsUno pic.twitter.com/9gmqNn7TlS
– Alejandro Pino Calad (@PinoCalad) October 19, 2021
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