The Prosecutor’s Office in the Croatian city of Osijek accuses Luka Modric, a Real Madrid midfielder, of false testimony in 2017, the Croatian news agency Hina reported on Thursday.
According to the source, the Prosecutor’s Office formalized the accusation against the best Croatian footballer on Wednesday, at the same time that it also accused the Croatian footballer Dejan Lovren, from French Lyon, of the same crime.
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The problem
Modric is accused of having given false testimony on June 13, 2017 in a trial before the Osijek Municipal Court “despite the fact that the judge warned him that he had a duty to tell the truth” and that giving false testimony is penalized as a crime.
The sports newspaper Sportske novosti recalls that it was a trial against three senior officials from the Dinamo Zagreb club and a tax official, accused of tax evasion and illegal appropriation of money from Dinamo in the transfers of Modric to Tottenham in 2008 and Lovren to Lyon in 2010.
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Modric testified about the dates on which the annexes to the professional contracts that regulated the distribution of compensation for the transfer between him and his club Dinamo were signed.
According to the accusation, Modric testified “falsely” that he signed the annexes every time he extended the professional contract and that he signed them again after leaving the club, “although he knew that this does not correspond to the truth since he signed the aforementioned contract annexes when he had already left the initial club”.
difficult subject
At the end of the trial, the judges sentenced the four defendants to various terms, including six and a half years in prison for the former CEO of Dinamo Zdravko Mamic for having illegally appropriated 15.5 million euros from the club.
The testimonies of Modric and Lovren would have favored Mamic, who fled to where he currently lives before the conviction.
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Sportske novosti comments that this Wednesday’s accusations against Modric and Lovren are the same ones published against them already in 2017 and 2018, respectively, but rejected in 2018 since then the process had not concluded.
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The trial was closed in 2021 and the prosecution decided this Wednesday to reactivate the accusations for false testimony against the two footballers.
Today, Modric is accused by the Prosecutor’s Office of false testimony in Croatia. He is linked to the mafia. He led Nazi chants with the selection of him. In Spain he was sentenced to 8 months in prison for fraud and leads real estate speculation in Valdebebas. The media say that he is “exemplary”. pic.twitter.com/oW9xiHbKQC
— Fonsi Loaiza (@FonsiLoaiza) June 30, 2023
EFE
2023-07-01 13:49:37
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