A Alcobendas court investigates possible corruption at the AFE

The Futbolistas On union claims the accusation of David Aganzo for obtaining personal data of a confidential nature.

The Investigating Court number 4 of Alcobendas investigates a possible case of data acquisition of those responsible for the Association of Spanish Soccer Players (AFE) from a former worker of the union Futbolistas On. Within this open judicial investigation, the legal representatives of Futbolistas On have requested the imputation of the president of the AFE, David Aganzo, for allegedly paying to get this confidential information.

The request comes after the union's lawyers presented the affidavit of a vice president and a technical secretary of the AFE, who explained that in the Aganzo office “there was economic documentation from the Futbolistas On union regarding workers 'and workers' wages. payments made by LaLiga to the union, “according to the expansion of the complaint.

The vice president relates in his sworn statement that Aganzo and the director of the Association's legal adviser “require members of the Board of Directors and workers of AFE to pay the amount of 500 euros per person to obtain the aforementioned documentation, although finally They paid 390 euros “and he even assures that he photographed” Futbolistas On economic documentation “in Aganzo's office.

False testimony

A year ago, Futbolistas On sued a former worker for a possible crime of revealing secrets since shortly after leaving this union they found that members of the AFE, during the celebration of an election, boasted of knowing data such as billing , payrolls or contracts of Soccer Players On. That is why this union carried out an expert on the computer held by the former worker and it was verified that she allegedly made a copy of confidential information before returning it.

Within this open procedure in a court of Alcobendas they declared as witnesses Diego Rivas, general secretary and another manager, Antonio Saiz Czech, who denied knowing anything about the purchase of documents to the former union worker. Yesterday, Saiz Checa sent a letter to the Valencia Prosecutor's Office in which he acknowledged the facts, as he said. Brand. Therefore, On Soccer players, represented by the lawyer Daniel Salvador de Vosseler Abogados, also claims that Rivas and Saiz Checa be charged with a crime of false testimony.

Before this judicial investigation, Aganzo denied the possible payment of 3,000 euros for obtaining data from Soccer Players On. “The accusations are completely false. My work is exclusively aimed at defending the interests of soccer players. And defending our honor against anyone who questions it,” he said in his account on social networks.

The “biggest scandal” in a decade

In a letter sent to the members of the Board of Directors of AFE and its president Saiz Checa, he accused himself of the alleged crime and accuses Aganzo of allegedly obtaining funds to illegally obtain tax documentation from the union. However, this newspaper has been able to know that the alleged purchase of fiscal data went to the former union worker, whose husband is a civil servant, but who did not leave the public administration.

Footballers On and their legal representatives speak of the “greatest scandal in the last decade of Spanish football”. “We were the first, logically, to put it in the hands of the Court number 4 of Alcobendas. In that court there is already a lot of documentation and they will have to respond. It cannot be this level of corruption that exists in soccer, we are in the sewers of soccer … It cannot be that a union wants to destroy us with mafia techniques … AFE is adrift and the court is going to put them in their place. “