In the Sala case, a new judicial component is opening in France, as revealed by L'Equipe on Tuesday. For a year, the transfer of the Argentine striker, tragically disappeared in a plane crash on January 21, 2019, in the amount of 17 million euros, is the subject of a legal and financial dispute between the clubs from Nantes and Cardiff.
After the failure of Fifa, the dispute awaits settlement before the Sports Arbitral Tribunal (CAS), presumably within the next six months. But this Tuesday, the Cardiff club decided to file a complaint against X with the public prosecutor of Nantes. It is the Parisian firm Dupond-Moretti & Vey, council of the Welsh club in France, which finalized this complaint. Cardiff City points in particular to the role and responsibility of intermediary Willie McKay, whose agent son, Mark, had the mandate of FC Nantes for Emiliano Sala.
"It is clear that intermediaries, foremost among them Willie McKay, intervened actively at all stages of the transfer of Emiliano Sala, when they were without a sports agent license," said Mr. Vey to L ' Team. FC Nantes and its leaders were accomplices in the crime by deliberately having recourse to the services of intermediaries which they could not ignore that they were practicing illegally. Mr. Vey also suspects "the existence of hidden commissions and retro-commissions that had to be paid to different parties" of the transfer.
FC Nantes intends "not to let it go"
The Welsh club and its French lawyers are finally wondering about possible facts of "manslaughter". "If it were established that the leaders of FC Nantes were not only informed of the flight but also of the fact that Willie McKay used to charter commercial flights without authorization," concludes Antoine Vey, "they could then be accused of the facts of manslaughter and complicity in crime ”.
In the entourage of FC Nantes, we say "absolutely amazed by this umpteenth maneuver by Cardiff, who never ceases to instrumentalize this drama and seek to deceive the press, opinion and official bodies. "Faced with this complaint, the club adds" be very serene but intends "not to let it go, as it has done for a year. "
He further points out that "Cardiff dares this media attempt only two days after the tributes paid to Emiliano Sala and on the eve of submitting his brief to the CAS ( Editor's note: all the arguments that the Welsh club wishes to put forward in the financial dispute ).
