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elmas:


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Okuda:


illegal in what sense?

thats called 3rd party deals....imagine chelsea playing a sporting team with 12 of his own personal players, if dts tru dnt you kno he may be fined and even banned because it leads way for fixing the match for the higest bidders??

That an act was done secretly doesn't mean that it's illegal or bad. Your father didn't fūck your mother in the open, did he?

They also show how the UK is often the weak link in the financial system and how London is awash with Russian cash.
That the reason UK always support Nigeria to allow them hide them money .Apart from illagel banking they have nothing to boost off.

Russians with underworld deals, this id familiar business model in brazil, most promising Brazilian players rights are owned by business men, neymar was also involved in such contract as a player in santos fc

ogbiwa:
Chelsea owner Roman Abramovich held secret investments in footballers not owned by his club, an investigation has discovered.

The players included the Peruvian winger Andre Carrillo, who turned out against Chelsea in Champions League matches in 2014.

He held rights in the players through a company based in the British Virgin Islands.

Mr Abramovich's spokeswoman stressed no rules or regulations were broken.

But former Football Association chairman Lord Triesman has questioned whether it was "proper" for the owner of a football club to have an interest in players in other teams.

Twelve players on the pitch
A leak of documents - banks' "suspicious activity reports" - that have been called the FinCEN Files and seen by BBC Panorama has revealed that Mr Abramovich is behind an offshore company called Leiston Holdings.

Leiston was taking stakes in footballers overseas through third-party ownership (TPO).

This is where investors buy a share of a footballer's future transfer value from cash-strapped clubs.

The practice was banned in the English Premier League in 2008 but not internationally until 2015.

Chelsea faced Sporting Lisbon in the Champions League group stage in 2014.

And Carrillo lined up for Sporting in both matches.

So in Lisbon in September and Stamford Bridge in December, Mr Abramovich had an interest in 12 players on the pitch.

Lord Triesman told Panorama: "I don't think it can possibly be proper for the owner of a football club to own players in other football clubs. That is precisely why third-party ownership is banned."

"It casts suspicion and a shadow right across football. On the documents I've seen, I would've wanted, as chairman of the FA, to investigate them."

It comes as Mr Abramovich appears to be making heavy investments in Chelsea again this year.

What links Roman Abramovich to the offshore company?
In December 2016, a suspicious activity report (SAR) was filed by a bank about Mr Abramovich.

It identified more than $1bn of "suspicious payments involving offshore shell companies" - firms functioning only to manage the money put in them.

The SAR said many of the shell companies were "owned by Roman Abramovich… one of Russia's most powerful oligarchs with close ties to Moscow & Vladimir Putin".

The money seemed to be going around in circles between the companies.

Among the transactions were a series of nine payments from a Cypriot company. This money was split between four other companies before $156m ended up in Leiston Holdings.

Leiston became the subject of public attention in 2018, when it was revealed by German website Der Spiegel as part of the Football Leaks investigation to be an investment vehicle for TPO.

Panorama discovered both the company in Cyprus and Leiston Holdings are Roman Abramovich companies.

As well as being funded with $156m of his money, Chelsea had first option of signing some of Leiston's players.

Was there a conflict of interest?
In 2011, Leiston Holdings secured 50% of Andre Carrillo's "economic rights" when it loaned Sporting €1m (about £850,000) to help them purchase the player from Alianza Lima.

The financial deal contained a number of clauses, as was common in TPO agreements.

It said that if a transfer offer of more than €6m was made for Carrillo and Sporting Lisbon did not accept it, they would have to pay Leiston 45% of the value of the offer.

And Sporting agreed to pay Leiston a "risk fee" of more than €127,000 for each season Carrillo played for the club.

The Portuguese club's accounts showed it owed Leiston €2.6m in 2014-15.

Leiston also owned stakes in two other Sporting players - Gael Etock, who played for the club between 2012 and 2013, and Valentim Viola who was in the squad between 2012 and 2016.

'No wrongdoing'
Former England and Liverpool striker John Barnes told Panorama that while third-party ownership could not really influence what happens on the pitch, it was important players had an identity and loyalty to the club they played for and their supporters.

"From a moral point of view, and from an integrity of the sport point of view - when you sign for a club, your integrity and your loyalty should be to that club 100%."

Mr Abramovich's spokeswoman said: "The fact that transactions may have been confidential, does not mean that they were unlawful or otherwise in breach of then applicable rules or regulations."

She said they "relate to the period before Fifa changed their rules".

The spokeswoman added that suspicious activity reports do not mean laws or rules have been broken, saying: "The fact that we are not aware of this issue, confirms that there has been no wrongdoing as no action was taken."

Who is Roman Abramovich?
>One of Russia's richest people, with Forbes putting his net worth in 2019 at $12.9bn

>Reportedly sold dolls before making his fortune in oil and gas after the collapse of the former Soviet Union

>One-time business partner of the late tycoon Boris Berezovky, an associate of ex-Russian President Boris Yeltsin

>Served as governor of Russia's Chukotka region

>Believed to be close to Russian President Vladimir Putin

>Became owner of the companies that control Chelsea in 2003

>Reportedly withdrew application to extend his UK investor visa - which allowed him to reside in Britain - in 2018

>Now has Israeli citizenship

The FinCen Files is a leak of secret documents. They have revealed how major banks have allowed dirty money to be moved around the world.

They also show how the UK is often the weak link in the financial system and how London is awash with Russian cash.

The files were obtained by BuzzFeed News which shared them with the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists (ICIJ) and 400 journalists around the world. Panorama has led research for the BBC.

https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-54229269

Quite obvious, only british media would be the source of this news. Trying to paint him.

Football is real business and investment; don't just watch the game for the sake of passion, look out for the business side and cash out big time; you don't even have to love the game, just look for the money in it and let those with the passion do the loving.

paulolee:

thats called 3rd party deals....imagine chelsea playing a sporting team with 12 of his own personal players, if dts tru dnt you kno he may be fined and even banned because it leads way for fixing the match for the higest bidders??

Yes that's a third part deal but your assertion on 12 players of sporting is not correct....
Read that article well, the 12 players being referred to there consists of 11CFC players and 1 from Sporting (the Carillo guy).... That's why they said he had 12 players own by him on the pitch.

He's just been a business man! What's that business??!!

just 12 out of 22

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Mexyz:
Yes that's a third part deal but your assertion on 12 players of sporting is not correct....
Read that article well, the 12 players being referred to there consists of 11CFC players and 1 from Sporting (the Carillo guy).... That's why they said he had 12 players own by him on the pitch.

what are you saying bro... Any business man with 12 players on the pitch at the same time has an undue advantage on that game. It takes just a player each from any of the teams playing against each other to throw that game.
With that kind of advantage at his disposal, fixing a match will just be a walk in the park.

paulolee:

thats called 3rd party deals....imagine chelsea playing a sporting team with 12 of his own personal players, if dts tru dnt you kno he may be fined and even banned because it leads way for fixing the match for the higest bidders??

Read the article properly, it was a period in time when it was still legal. Fifa did not ban the act till after 2015, the deal occurred before then.

Leave the Chelsea owner alone. Let us talk about our own. Our Atukulate Atiku. How e own be?

Make he come mentor me abeg!

paulolee:
its normal...the road to such wealth and power are filled with dirty deals because they are no billionaire without illegal dealings and dts the "real secret to thier wealth that they wont tell You.....Yes i said so
if the investigation is true and imagine Chelsea playing sporting dt av 11 of abrahimovic personal players, dt means he can easily fix the outcome of the match and dts more money for bookies and loss for gamblers..

words.
as a Chelsea fan, I say you are a wise somebody.

elmas:


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CocaineLord:
To be a multi billionaire legally ain't easy

There are no legal billionaires Bro

NaijaMutant:
Chelsea should be severely punished by being relegated for 600years

i am not sure you are a female; in other words u re a sex yahoo yahoo

"London is awash with Russian cash", not too long ago London was also awash with Nigerian cash.

And Tony Blair had the gall to say that we’re a fantastically corrupt people, when they are d ones that knighted pirates and commissioned them to steal for the crown as privateers.

I wonder which country’s cash London will be awash with next. 'Infinity level' corrupt pipo!

paulolee:
its normal...the road to such wealth and power are filled with dirty deals because they are no billionaire without illegal dealings and dts the "real secret to thier wealth that they wont tell You.....Yes i said so
if the investigation is true and imagine Chelsea playing sporting dt av 11 of abrahimovic personal players, dt means he can easily fix the outcome of the match and dts more money for bookies and loss for gamblers..

Wat mks it illegal Business is business if u don't kw..the man is mkin his money...if it is illegal,u will see

paulolee:
its normal...the road to such wealth and power are filled with dirty deals because they are no billionaire without illegal dealings and dts the "real secret to thier wealth that they wont tell You.....Yes i said so
if the investigation is true and imagine Chelsea playing sporting dt av 11 of abrahimovic personal players, dt means he can easily fix the outcome of the match and dts more money for bookies and loss for gamblers..

your head dey there!

NaijaMutant:
Chelsea should be severely punished by being relegated for 600years

Nice try

NaijaMutant:
Chelsea should be severely punished by being relegated for 600years

Bad belle

paulolee:

thats called 3rd party deals....imagine chelsea playing a sporting team with 12 of his own personal players, if dts tru dnt you kno he may be fined and even banned because it leads way for fixing the match for the higest bidders??

As at that time it wasn't illegal so technically he hasn't broken any rules. Several top investors in football were into it before it was stopped.

What you're stating is the reason why FIFA changed the third party ownership rules in 2015