A report by the National Police describes how the maximum shareholder of the club and his children obtained more than 7 million euros from the Malaguista club
Abdullah Al-Thani (c), during the trial of the 'BlueBay case'.
When the judicial administrator who manages Mlaga C.F. He arrived at the offices to face his first day of work, he was afraid of the reception he would have among the club staff. Mxime, because his first decisions were going to be tough, like selling to Granada C.F. de Anton, the squad with more projection of the team. But his surprise was great when “he was received with open arms,” explain sources consulted by this newspaper, who consider that the intervention of the sports society “was the only way to prevent his disappearance.” A forceful assertion that they extract from the analysis of the documentation seized by the National Police and that reveal that the entity was the particular ATM of Sheikh Al Thani and his sons, who supposedly took money at their whim to pay rent, buy cars, pay expensive travel or, perhaps most dangerous for the survival of the team, the acquisition of shares to perpetuate themselves in power.
The report prepared by the Group III of Laundering of the Provincial Police Station for the court of the Instruction court number 14 of Malaga, whose owner has separated the Al Thani family from the direction of the team, is based on the information collected by the investigators during the intervention that took place on January 22 at the offices of the blue and white complex. A text in which the money allegedly stolen from the coffers of the club by the sheik rises to 7.3 million euros Abdullah Bin Nasser Al Thani and his sons Nasser, Nayef Y Rakan, members of the board of directors, through a network of instrumental companies.
The document, to which this newspaper has had access, places Nas Football SL at the epicenter of the economic bleeding to which the Al Thani have allegedly subjected the club. This company owned by the sheik is the recipient of most of the funds that come out of Mlaga CF in the form of loans or credits and through which the majority of the personal expenses of the Qatar clan were paid.
Among the goods that have been indirectly paid with malaguista money, a tourism of the Audi brand stands out, for which 40,000 euros were delivered “as entry and seal” or the 64,500 euros disbursed to cover the rents of the children of Abdullah Bin Nasser.
Nayef and Nasser made personal trips totaling 120,769.03 euros through the Halcn Viajes agency, according to the researchers, who record in their report a particularly striking case. This is a getaway to London that five family members made in May 2017 and whose stay at the Dorchester Hotel allegedly cost the club € 39,314.51. The round trip was set for days 10 and 14, respectively, but upon returning three days later they were penalized with 250 euros. The thing was not there. The sheik's sons finally chose to hire a chrter flight whose amount was 23,700 euros.
“The members of the board of directors or their companies have available a series of amounts delivered or paid by Mlaga CF for various purposes that can be classified as exclusive, since in principle they do not respond to the corporate purpose or interests of the sports society “, alert the agents, who suggest that the club's accounts came out with the four million with which the sheik must compensate the architect Jos Segu for the failed project for the port of La Bajadilla in Marbella.
Another aspect of special interest to those responsible for the case is that, despite the club's statutes, it is stated that the members of the board of directors will only be remunerated for attending the meetings through diets, Group III Money Laundering warns that the Al Thani family “has approved – since at least the 2016 financial year – an annual amount of 1,444,736.88 euros per year to remunerate their duties as directors”. A remuneration of the
that a crime against the Public Treasury could be released if the corresponding tax obligations had not been met.
The police investigation has also highlighted the sheikh's alleged movements to remain the club's largest shareholder and circumvent the consequences of the 12th Malaga Court of First Instance ruling that forced Sheik Abdullah Bin Nasser to surrender 49 percent. of their actions to the Blue Bay group.
With the support of the small shareholders, this hotel holding company could take over the management of the club and separate the Al Thani. However, as described in the report, they took advantage of the investigation period of the case and the subsequent judgment, to carry out various operations to acquire new titles. For example, they took 4,474 shares owned by the former Malaguista president Fernando Puche when they were seized by the Tax Agency and put up for auction. An operation that cost more than 100,000 euros that “again involved an outflow of funds from Mlaga C.F.”
All of these underground acquisitions have finally allowed the Al Thani to remain the largest shareholders with 50.33 percent of the club's stakes.
For this reason, and “based on all the foregoing”, the researchers defend the club's intervention because “the economic activity carried out to date by the Board of Directors can seriously put the sports entity at financial risk and, therefore, its survival”.
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