Troubles are piling up for Gérard Lopez. Tuesday, November 12, we learned that Boavista, one of the clubs owned by the Spanish-Luxembourgish businessman, was on the verge of liquidation. This Wednesday, the current owner of the Girondins de Bordeaux was tried before the Lille judicial court as part of a preliminary admission of guilt procedure (CRPC).
The hiring of Karim Saada at the heart of the judgment
According to The Team he was sentenced to ten months’ suspended imprisonment and a fine of 45,000 euros for “complicity in illegal exercise of the profession of sports agent without a valid license and failure to declare the employment of a collaborator”. This refers to the Karim Saada affair, hired at Losc on 1is October 2017, of which Lopez was president from 2017 to 2020, but only regularized on March 26, 2018. According to The TeamSaada was also sentenced to 10 months’ suspended imprisonment and a fine of 5,000 euros for “illegal exercise of the profession of sports agent without a valid license”.
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The French Football Federation and Losc were present at the hearing as civil parties. Gérard Lopez now has ten days to appeal this judgment.
« We are satisfied today with the agreement reached with the Lille prosecutor definitively putting an end to the proceedings carried out against Mr. Gérard Lopez, and leading to a sentence with limited consequences, explained Me Pierre de Combles de Nayves, Gérard Lopez’s lawyer, to The Team. The fact that only this residual procedure relating to a temporary situation remains, despite several years of investigation with numerous ramifications – in which Mr. Lopez diligently participated – demonstrates the solidity of his case. »
“The prosecutor also proposed to the judge that this conviction not be entered in bulletin no. 2 of the criminal record, thus authorizing Mr. Lopez to continue his activities without any restriction, in France or abroad,” also clarified Me Pierre de Combles de Nayves
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