This Thursday marks forty days since the University of Chile denounced Deportes Melipilla before the Autonomous Court of Discipline of the ANFP, for the alleged existence of double contracts during the 2021 season. And the story still seems far from reaching an end.
The First Chamber communicated the first verdict on December 27, but it was talking about two cases from 2020. What happened in between? Huachipato provided evidence and witnesses to prove the offense, which determined the expulsion of Melipilla from professional soccer, according to the judgment in the first instance.
The whole of the provincial capital appealed to the Second Chamber and the allegations had just ended. Melipilla presented a defense oriented to errors in terms of time and procedures, and the representatives of the steel cadre and of another of the complainants, Audax Italiano, expressed their optimism regarding the final ruling.
Speaking to En Cancha, the steel lawyer, Ciro Colombara, said that they were “very calm because it seems to us that it is clear that there have been double contracts on the part of Melipilla. The italic Aldo Díaz agreed:” It was proven and the fact was not discussed of double contracts and black payments “.
“It is a campaign to misrepresent the facts”
However, this version was completely denied by Melipilla’s lawyer, Mauricio Acuña. In dialogue with Redgol, the professional denounces that the representatives of Huachipato and Audax have promoted “a series of fake news” and have even fallen into “accusations and personal allusions.”
According to the lawyer’s version, Colombara had already “issued a news item that did not conform to reality, saying that one of the first hearings was suspended due to Melipilla’s fault. And it was because the Court took three days to assess whether it was It was necessary for all the clubs to be present. “
“Then the same lawyer (Colombara) threw a false news that the disaffiliation had been accredited, when we were in the middle of a hearing that ended a day later. It is a campaign to misrepresent the facts, to confuse public opinion and the public. Court “, accuses the Melipilla defender.
Faced with the latest statements by Colombara and Díaz, Acuña definitely seems to be talking about another case by ruling out any type of recognition of the accusations. “Once the allegations were concluded, Magistrate Ernesto Vázquez asked me a couple of questions directly,” he explains.
The idea was “to see if we actually adhered to the fallacy of Ciro Colombara’s theory, which always tries to confuse things. He asked me directly if as representative we recognized the irregularities”, the lawyer details.
The answer was blunt. “Magistrate, I have been emphatic and clear, all the statements that we have given in the press, the defense of the First Chamber, today’s allegations … we have always denied and denied the statements that they intend to denounce us,” says Acuña.
“We present documentary and witness evidence, videos of witnesses, players, former Melipilla players who were themselves in charge of uploading them to social networks and all have denied: Nicolás Peranic, Gonzalo Sosa, Gonzalo Lauler, Cristián Magaña, Miguel Escalona and Cristián Zavala ; players of rank who have been lapidary and emphatic, “said the lawyer for the Colts.
“We have never recognized nor are we going to do so, because it is not true. If the lawyer wants to believe that theory, it is because of the lack of legal arguments. It is different in the case that one as a lawyer puts oneself on the scene that even with the evidence that is dismissed, in the event that the court concludes otherwise, even for that event that the evidence is controversial and not peaceful, the sanction is not exposure because it is not even pigeonholed in the denounced norm “, assures the jurist .
“We were told that we were part of a mafia”
But the matter does not end there. In fact, Melipilla’s idea is to continue with the legal dispute beyond the day the sentence of the Second Chamber of the Disciplinary Court is definitively known. Mauricio Acuña reveals that there has even been verbal abuse from the complainants.
“I and Alejandro Preuss were told that we were part of a soccer mafia. Once this is finished, we will take legal action. We have received calls of solidarity for the injuries,” says the representative of the Colts.
“We are not going to accept this type of accusation or personal allusions. This type of action is only due to the lack of legal arguments on the part of Huachipato and the complainants,” concludes Acuña, in one more sign of how complex this case has become. .
The final determination of the Melipilla Case keeps the completion of the 2021 National Championship pending, since the expulsion of the Colts allows the salvation of Curicó Unido and that Huachipato plays the promotion final against Deportes Copiapó, to complete the First and First B draw.
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