This trial, which had opened up a month before kickoff in Qatar, had been marked by the surprise withdrawal of the prosecution accusations.
MO12345LEMONDE with AFP
The Brazilian football star, Neymar, was released Tuesday, December 13 by a Spanish court which had judged it in October in the company of several co -accused for alleged irregularities during his transfer to FC Barcelona in 2013. The judges of The provincial hearing of Barcelona decided the “Relax of Neymar” and the eight other defendants. They estimated that they had not noticed an offense and therefore “prejudices for the complainants” in this case, the Barcelona court said in a statement.
Besides Neymar and his parents, two ex -presidents of Barça – Sandro Rosell and Josep Maria Bartomeu – and an ex -leader of the Brazilian club of Santos, Odilio Rodrigues Filho, were prosecuted alongside Barça, Santos and ‘Company founded by Neymar’s parents to manage his career. This trial, relating to facts of corruption and fraud, had opened up a month before the World Cup in Qatar, where “Ney” and Seleçao were eliminated in the quarterfinals by Croatia.
The end of the trial had been marked by a real drama when the prosecution, which claimed two years in prison and 10 million euros against the Paris Saint-Germain striker for corruption, had withdrawn his accusations against all defendants.
holder of 40 % of Neymar’s rights when he evolved in Santos before leaving for Barcelona, the Brazilian company Di had brought the case in 2015, saying that Barça, Neymar and his family, then Santos In a second step, had allied to hide the actual amount of the transfer and “swindle it”. She also reproached them for not having informed him of the existence of an exclusivity contract signed in 2011 between the Brazilian star and Barça, which he said, according to her, the transfer window.
“No evidence”
The prosecutor, who had made the accusations of Dis, finally considered that they “were not built on evidence” but “on presumptions” and that the file was of civil justice and not criminal justice. This turnaround had highlighted deep differences within the Spanish prosecution on this complex dossier, originally educated by Madrid prosecutors before Barcelona recovers the case.
Following the flip -flop of the prosecution, the accusation was only based on Dis, which represented in this trial the “particular accusation” – a legal status allowing the alleged victim of the offense of requiring sorrows .
In this capacity, the Brazilian company had requested two and a half years in prison against Neymar against five years required before the opening of the trial. Barça had quantified the cost of transfer to 57.1 million euros (40 million for Neymar and his family and 17.1 for Santos), but Spanish justice estimated that it had actually cost at least 83 million. Say, who received 6.8 million euros out of the 17.1 officially paid to the Brazilian club, claimed 35 million euros in compensation.
During the trial, Neymar had said that he did not “remember” to have participated in the negotiations of the 2011 exclusivity agreement, ensuring that he has given it to the choices of his father and to have signed what the latter told him to sign. Neymar’s father had argued, for his part, that it was not up to him but Santos to inform say of the existence of authorized negotiations, according to him, by the Brazilian club in a letter.
This trial was nicknamed “Neymar 2”, “Neymar 1” designating the tax fraud deriving this same transfer which ended in 2016 by an agreement between the prosecution and the Barça, which had accepted Pay a fine of 5.5 million. Neymar and Barça also clashed before the courts but they ended up signing in July 2021 an amicable agreement ending all the financial disputes opposing them.