Ariel Alvarado was provisionally detained in April 2017, the case was declared prescribed by a court in November of that year, a decision that was appealed.
A court of Panama called for trial to the former president of the Panamanian Football Federation (Fepafut) Ariel Alvarado, of course money laundering to the detriment of that body, in a case opened in 2017.
“At the request of the Superior Anticorruption Discharge Prosecutor’s Office, the third liquidator judge calls two people to trial for the crime of Money laundering to the detriment of the Panamanian Football Federation (Fepafut), events that occurred in 2017 ″, reported this Monday the Public Ministry (MP, Prosecutor’s Office).
Official sources informed Efe that those involved They are the former president of Fepafut Ariel Alvarado and his wife, Rocío de los Ángeles Alvarado.
The case was opened in 2017 for alleged irregularities in the television contracts for the transmission of football matches awarded to the company Traffic Sports, a company based in Miami (USA) dedicated to promoting soccer events in the USA, Central America and the Caribbean.
The Justice of the United States opened in May 2015 an investigation for massive fraud and money laundering of money against fifty high-ranking FIFA officials, including twenty Latin Americans, in a case that was named FIFAGate.
A federal judge in the United States linked Alvarado with the supposed accepting bribes to favor the Traffic Sports company with the television and marketing rights of the Panama soccer team for the South Africa 2010 and Brazil 2014 qualifiers, the Panamanian newspaper said on Monday The Press.
Alvarado was arrested in preventive custody in April 2017 but the case was declared prescribed by a court in November of that year, a decision that was appealed by the Prosecutor’s Office, according to official information. (D)
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