{"id":19716,"date":"2012-06-15T11:46:43","date_gmt":"2012-06-15T08:46:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/?p=19716"},"modified":"2024-02-15T16:06:19","modified_gmt":"2024-02-15T13:06:19","slug":"atletico-madrid-charged-with-money-laundering19716","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/atletico-madrid-charged-with-money-laundering19716\/","title":{"rendered":"Atletico Madrid Charged with Money Laundering"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Atl\u00e9tico’s sporting director Caminero accused of taking part in criminal activity with drug cartels and money laundering<\/h1>\n

Atl\u00e9tico are a club no strangers to illicit activity, and when it was made known last summer that Jos\u00e9 Luis P\u00e9rez Caminero would be taking over for Jes\u00fas Garc\u00eda Pitarch as Atletico Madrid’s sporting director, we knew he would fit right in with our majority-shareholding and criminally convicted directors given his tainted past.<\/p>\n

While certainly embarrassing to the legacy of our beloved Atleti, the alleged charges brought against Caminero and 19 others by the 3rd Magistrates\u2019 Court of Majadahonda (Madrid) \u2013 accusing the defendants of taking part in a money laundering scheme reportedly organised by both Colombian and Mexican drug cartels \u2013 are somewhat unsurprising.<\/p>\n

According to court documents, as the Spanish EFE news agency reports, in 2008 and 2009, Caminero participated, along with three others, in \u201cthe transporting of money from Madrid to Valladolid, where a group of individuals would help them exchange the money at a financial institution.\u201d<\/p>\n

The records also show that the former Rojiblanco midfielder \u201cwas detained on 8 June 2009 when he was carrying 58,500 euros in cash he was taking from Valladolid to Madrid to deliver to another defendant\u201d, and that he had previously been placed under police surveillance as early as 22 September 2008, when officers of the Civil Guard (Spanish Police Force) noticed his comings and goings at a jewelry shop in the Spanish capital that had been identified as the criminal organisation\u2019s centre of operations.<\/p>\n

The judge also stated that information taken from a USB memory stick belonging to a Mexican citizen also indicted in the scheme, revealed that up to \u20ac60 million may have been laundered.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s unclear if these charges will eventually lead to Caminero seeing jail time, or what the immediate future holds for him at Atletico Madrid.<\/p>\n

\u00a0Is that Turkish players transfers \u00a0have a point behind\u00a0the cleaning of black money?<\/h2>\n

Turkish old aged and troubled \u00a0football player who transfers Emre Belozoglu\u00a0was transferred to the operation of money laundering ?\u00a0The question began to be raised following this development<\/p>\n

In other but related news, Atl\u00e9tico are reportedly considering changing their anthem to this.<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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