PSG, WITH MANY FAVORS FROM FRANCE
Police are already investigating the payment of the 222 million that PSG paid to Barça for Neymar
Published:18/01/2024 - 12:20h
Updated:18/01/2024 - 12:20h
Neymar's move to Paris Saint-Germain in 2017 was undoubtedly a before and after in terms of the European football market, although it ended up being a negative investment for the French and still causes them problems
The arrival of Neymar to Paris Saint Germain pertinent of the FC Barcelona in 2017, by 222 million euros, has aroused doubts in France because of supposed fiscal favours made to the club Frenchman to avoid the payment of distinct taxes. Like this it has informed it this Thursday 'Mediapart', affirming that the past Monday made distinct registers in the Ministry of economy and finances with the aim of esclarecer the facts and try find distinct proofs that could incriminate to the French Executive.
The allanamiento made in presence of two judges of instruction, indicated one of the near sources to the case. Besides, the researchers registered several services of the General Direction of Public Finances (DGFIP), directed till lately by Jérôme Fournel, current director of cabinet of the minister of the bouquet Bruno Him Maire.
From September of 2022, two judges of instruction investigate the tactics of influence attributed to the exdirector of communication of the PSG, Jean-Martial Ribes. The justice looks for averiguar if the exdiputado oficialista Hugues Renson tried to obtain "fiscal advantages" for the PSG during the traspaso of Neymar from the Barça, which continues being the most expensive of the history of the football.
The PSG, with presumptive complicity of the French politics
In a report sent on 21 November to a judge instructor, the researchers aim to a possible "traffic of influences" by part of Renson. According to this report that reviews 10 years of messages of telephony, Ribes asked "without place to doubts (...) The services" of Renson. The also exvicepresidente of the National Assembly affirms on 24 July 2017 that elevated a "subject PSG" --possibly the fiscalización of the traspaso-- to Gérald Darmanin, then minister of Public and current Accounts title of Interior.
Darmanin "Considers that it is very (...) What matters is that they present the documents that have mentioned", writes Renson to Ribes. Then, the minister gladdened publicly of "the taxes that Neymar [could] pay in France" and ensured that his services would analyse the financial setting of the traspaso. Now asked this week in this regard, Darmanin ensured that it was loved that the big players arrived to France. "I am very happy that the players of football avenge to our country, pay a lot of taxes and have a lot of fiscal income", ensured.
