The judge of the 'Oikos case' imputes corruption to the entire Reus squad for faking the game against Valladolid in 2017

The judge who instructs the 'Oikos case'imputes to all the staff of the Reus for him supposed master of the match against Valladolid in June 2017. The head of the Court of Instruction number 5 of Huesca has cited 26 members of the Catalan team as investigated after warning signs that they collected a premium from the SD Huesca for beating the Valladolid team 2-0 during the penultimate round of the League in Second Division. This is the first time that so-called third-party bonuses have been judicially investigated.

In that game, Reus was not playing anything while the Valladolid and Huesca had options to contest the promotion phase First Division. Huesca finished the competition in sixth position so it played the promotion phase. For its part, Valladolid did not enter the playoff to be seventh for the goal difference. Despite the alleged love, the Huesca lost against Getafe and he did not get promotion to the First Division, a goal that Levante and Girona did.

The judge points out that all members of the Reus staff are under investigation for an offense established in article 286 of the Penal Code. He adds that the witnesses will be carried out “as soon as the court's ruling agenda allows” and that they will be carried out by videoconference since the players currently reside in “various locations in the Spanish geography”. In parallel, the instructor has requested if any of these footballers has a criminal record.

In relation to this match, the judge also cited the former Huesca player as being investigated. Iigo Lopez, where appropriate, in addition to a crime of corruption in sport by another of criminal organization. Not surprisingly, the researchers place López, also a former footballer for Deportivo de la Corua, as the key piece that articulated the match between the Huesca team and the Catalan team.

At the same time, the judge cites the SD Huesca as the investigated entity, which not only imputes the use of Reus-Valladolid but also the meeting that the Huesca team played against the Nstic de Tarragona a year later, on May 27, 2018 .

Finally, the instructor of the 'Oikos case' agrees to the analysis in court of one of the mobile phones operated on the former player of the Real Madrid Carlos Aranda, who is the leader of the matchmaking network. It also places, as investigated, a dozen people who made bets on Huesca-Nstic “knowing the result of the match” in the city of Malaga, Aranda's place of residence and where they had betting shops.