Searches at ASSE and Angers: three players’ agents in police custody

This Tuesday, ASSE and Angers SCO were searched while three players’ agents were placed in police custody in an investigation for aggravated money laundering and illegal exercise of the profession of agent, announced AFP, confirming information from Parisian. Of the three sports agents in police custody, only one has the license allowing him to practice this profession, said a source close to the investigation. The two who do not have this license are also already known to justice, added this source.

The searches in the two clubs took place within the framework of an open investigation of the heads of illegal exercise of the profession of sports agent and aggravated money laundering, entrusted to the central service of races and games (SCCJ), specified from his side to AFP the parquet floor of Bobigny. That at the headquarters of AS Saint-Etienne, which will play in Ligue 2 next season, took place at L’Étrat (Loire) in the presence of the chairman of the ASSE management board, Roland Romeyer, as a witness. added a source close to the file.

The management of AS Saint-Etienne assured AFP on Tuesday evening that the investigators were there “especially came to look for documents relating to player transfers“and that of”other management representatives” had been heard as witnesses. The Saint-Etienne club explains that “among the players’ agents targeted by this investigation, ASSE was linked to one of them for a player transfer carried out two years ago“, specifying that it is the one with an agent license,”recognized by UEFA and FIFA“, added the club.