It was not a scam but a “breach of contract.” This is how the president of Barça defended himself this Friday, John Laportaaccused of a alleged scam of 100,000 euros to a woman who invested said amount in two companies. A, Core Store … of which Laporta himself was administrator until 2019, and the other, CSSB Limited. The first was intended for the execution of a strategic plan to promote the promotion of Club Deportivo Reus, from Second B. While the second project was to create a training academy in China inspired by ‘La Masia’ of the Barça team.
The affected person formalized a complaint against both Laporta and Rafael Yuste -vice president of the club-; the former director Xavier Sala i Martín and the former director of TV3 and former owner of CF Reus Deportiu, Joan Oliver, all of them linked to respective projects, understanding that they were offered a series of investments as “safe”, despite the fact that they were instrumentalized through companies that, from the beginning, had “serious losses.” In his complaint he also noted that his investment was based on trust in the “reputation and prestige” of the participants, “who presented themselves as guarantors of the project”, offering an appearance of business solvency that did not correspond to reality.
This Friday, Joan Laporta’s lawyer, Jordi Pujante, assured at the doors of the courts that between 2019 and 2020 “unfortunately, for reasons beyond his control, the projects began to work in a not so satisfactory way and the contracts could not be fulfilled. In short, we are facing a breach of contract and not a scam. This has been Mr. Laporta’s statement,” he said.
Now, the intention of his defense is to request the closure of this investigation, understanding that there is no “criminal case” and that, in any case, it be resolved through civil means. Furthermore, he pointed out that Laporta did not intervene in the signing of “any contract».
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