A Madrid Court ordered the preventive seizure of nearly 50 million dollars from the audiovisual company BeIN Sports, property of Nasser Al-Khelaifiowner of Paris Saint Germain, for non-payment of the audiovisual rights of LaLiga, according to information published this Thursday by the ‘New York Times’.
The court of first instance ordered a precautionary measure ‘unprecedented part’ (without listening to the other party) of preventive seizure of goods to guarantee the payment of the corresponding amounts of the international audiovisual contracts, according to what EFE learned from judicial sources.
BeIN Sports has the audiovisual rights of LaLiga for the Asian market, from middle East and in several countries of strategic interest in Europe, but has not complied with the payment agreed with the entity chaired by Tebas and accumulates debts of more than 50 million dollars.
“Our reputation is built on decades of significant investment, the best content, long and serious relationships with providers of audiovisual rights, and a long payment history“, assured a spokesman for BeIN Sports to the ‘New York Times’.
According to the American newspaper, ten of the 50 million debts They have been paid to LaLiga on October 5.
It is estimated that, since 2018, BeIN Sports has agreed to pay LaLiga amounts greater than €1.5 billion to spread the matches in their markets of interest.
“It is no longer just the danger of the clubs/state, it is that these they control tv operators, pay and stop paying, they fulfill and fail to fulfill millionaire contracts… at will, as a pressure measure to ‘kneel’ to their spurious wishes, from the various positions #ECA, #beintv, #UEFA,” Tebas wrote on his Twitter account after the publication of the Article.
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