The Prosecutor’s Office has requested a penalty of nine years in prison for the ex-president of Racing de Santander Dimitri Piterman for a continuing offense ofmisappropriation and three of accounting fraud in his stage at the head of the Alavés Sports Society..
The public ministry also accuses the Ukrainian’s ex-wife and another businessman involved in the management of the Basque club of these crimes, according to their indictment for these facts, which will be tried from April 8 to 12 in the Provincial Court of Álava.
In particular, it asks each of them for five and a half years in prison and disqualification for administrative duties in commercial companies and a fine of 1,500 euros for a continuing crime of misappropriation. In the alternative, it is of interest that they be sentenced for disloyal administration to four years.
And for the accounting falsity, he claims a year and a half in prison and disqualification – at the rate of six months for each offence-, as well as the payment of the procedural costs for this cause and that they compensate Alabès in the amount that determined in judgment.
According to the provisional writ of the Prosecutor’s Office, Piterman acquired Alabès in 2004 – a year after he had bought Racing – and in July he became president i CEO of the Basque sports society.
The Board of Directors included, as secretary and vice-president, his then wife – whereabouts unknown at the time of accusing the Prosecutor’s Office – and months later she also appointed the third defendant, Jose Nereo Ruizcouncilor of this body, which remained until July 2007.
On the basis of their social positions and acting “for their own benefit”, the two entrepreneurs they seized funds of Alabès, to which they caused a “serious” financial lossper more than 3.1 million euros.
Five star hotels and travel
And it is that during the three years that they were councillors, the defendants stayed without sporting justification in one 5 star hotel of Victoryin which they also accommodated staff linked to both, paying the amount of expenses with club funds (278,184 euros).
In addition, the former president of the sports society paid, between July 2005 and September 2006 with money from the entity, more than 49,200 euros to an agency for trips i “personal” stays“.
Specifically, invoices for airline tickets in class business to go and return from Bilbao to San Francisco with stops in London and Paris, to fly from the Biscayan capital to France, return from Tenerife, and travel from Santander to Barcelona, Madrid and Palma, where expenses were paid for accommodation in a luxurious hotel.
According to the Prosecutor’s Office, the two prosecutions they tried to “hide this empowerment” through an invoice of 50,000 euros issued by a company domiciled in the United Kingdom, which they provided as alleged compensation for the travel expenses borne by the club, but “without connection or justification”.
In three years, they seized funds from the club amounting to 2.3 million, issuing invoices from companies linked to them but without any contractual support to justify them, seven of them through an entity whose Piterman was administrator and they totaled more than a million.
33 transfers were also accounted for through a company administered by Nereo for a value greater than 600,000 euros. The latter, through the security companies he hired, invoiced Alabès almost 52,000 euros for personal services that were provided at the home of Piterman and his family, and which were paid with club funds.
Both defendants, with the intention of obtaining an illicit patrimonial enrichment, agreed with a merchant to cancel a debt for more than 69,000 euros to which the club was a creditor in exchange for receiving audiovisual material in a hotel that Piterman had a Palamós.
The latter also opened an account in a bank office in Palamós in the name of Alabès which was operational until April 2007 and in which s’operava in an “opaque” manner the accounting and control of the sports society.
And the two, to the detriment of the social funds they administered, paid almost 194,000 euros through cash payments on the basis of invoices with “inaccurate, dated, global price” fiscal data and without the services in question being “rendered” in Alabès.
They also contributed funds from the team without documentary support to another futsal club for almost 150,000 euros, and to “hide their illicit profit” and the “real” financial situation of Alabès when they were directors, did not carry out the mandatory accounting and did not present or legalize the accounting books in 2004, 2005 and 2006.
2024-03-29 13:17:34
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