Gica popescu, condemned to three years of prison

The ex Barcelona Gica Popescu will have to ingresar in prison

The ex Barcelona Gica Popescu will have to ingresar in prison

Published:6/03/2014 - 09:58h

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According to the sentence of the Court of Appeal of Bucharest, Popescu committed, between 1999 and 2005, "extortion, fiscal escape and bleaching of money", together with seven high leaders of the football Romanian, like the sportive director of the Steaua of Bucharest, Mihai Stoica

The Court has confirmed the first sentence, that issued in November of 2012, by traspasos illegal of footballers rumanos to foreign clubs. The arrival of Cosmin Against to the Alavés in 1999, pertinent of the Dinamo of Bucharest, is one of the operations investigated.

In total, according to the court, the plot defrauded more than eight million euros to the Been Romanian and the clubs involved. The sentence is firm and can not resort. Therefore, Popescu will have to ingresar in prison. The ex footballer of the Barça was the big favourite in the elections to the federation rumana of football, but had to withdraw his candidature after knowing the sentence.

Popescu, of 46 years, was a member of the Barça between 1995 and 1997 and became captain of the team. Previously, it had played, among others, in the PSV and the Tottenham Hotspur. After leaving the club, fichó by the Galatasaray and finished his career in the Hannover German, with 36 years.

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