Barcelona left it again until the last minute to secure the money needed to register Dani Olmo and Pau Victor, so that he earned a late asset purchase in December – although La Liga disputed the origin and timing of that money. However, suspects continue to grow over the deal.
The Blaugrana, who have not formally announced the names of the buyers, sold 475 VIP seats in the renovated Camp Nou (when it opens) for a lease agreement of 30 years. One of the companies that has been unveiled is Forta Advisors, a company with only two employees with a registered head office in London and Qatar.
The other has been unveiled as a new ERA Visionary Group (NEVG), as reported earlier this week, from the United Arab Emirates, and more concrete, Dubai. They were responsible for the € 28 million that 'late' arrived in the eyes of La Liga, but the suspicion continues to grow over the origin of those funds.
Barcelona has granted a telecommunication contract for the new Camp Nou in collaboration with Orange, despite competition from two market leaders in Cellnex and Telefonica. NEVG is led by the former Moldovan politician Ruslan Birladeanu, who was previously convicted of real estate fraud in relation to millions, leading to his resignation as a vice-president of the Social-Democratic Party there.
That has been reported Catalunya Radio, who will also say that NEVG has their head office in Dubai in a cooperating space, and their office in Barcelona has been registered on a private property by Francisco Maza, with capital for only € 3k. That is despite the fact that their website declares itself as a 'world leader' in industry.
In the meantime, RAC1 also adds details to the photo. Their information is that Telefonica has presented a full project for an 'intelligent stadium' for Camp Nou, but that no tendering process was undertaken, and the agreement with NEVG also not by the commercial department of the club, something that is abnormal for such deals . It is also noted that Birladeanu has left to the former player and convicted rapist Dani Alves.
For their part, Barcelona has sustained that the process was fully legally implemented and that there are no irregularities in the contract. The suspicion of La Liga is that this could follow a similar pattern if the Barca Vision Sales, where the value of the company had been blown up too much and at no time the Blaugrana received the full value of the contract that they had claimed.
This can have consequences for Dani Olmo and Pau Victor, registered under a ministry for sports area based on those contracts. If La Liga and the RFEF, who have opposed the registration, can make sufficient doubts about those contracts, this can lead to the licenses for Olmo and Victor being withdrawn and they exclude them for the rest of the season. It can also have a major impact on Barcelona's salary limit.
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